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Our friends at The PC Support Group are back again with the fourth of their 7 point guide to free software. This week, they filter through the best free spam filtering software for your home office computer.

Spam (unsolicited and unwanted e-mail) is becoming a major problem for businesses, individuals and even Internet Service Providers.

SpamBayes is an intelligent spam filter and message classifier for Outlook, that automatically categorises your incoming messages into `good`, `spam` and `unsure` and sorts them into the associated folder. The program learns your preferences as you use it so over time you require less and less manual intervention.

The program is easy to use and setup and probably one of the most accurate filtering tools we have come across, with a detection rate of close to 100 percent.

You can download Spam from http://spambayes.sourceforge.net/.

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• Phil Bird
  The PC Support Group