Spam Blockers

Although Brainstorm has spam blocking available on all of our email accounts we recognize that some customers may want to use more sophisticated tools.  Outlook 2003 or greater, Windows Mail (Vista), OSX Mail, and Eudora 7 (paid version) have junk mail filtering built in. We recommend you use those if you have them. There are also some free programs that are very effective.  They can be "trained" to recognize spam.

SpamFighter

SpamFighter works with Microsoft Outlook Express, Outlook, and Windows Mail (Vista). The "standard" version may be all you need and is free at http://www.spamfighter.com.

Popup Blockers

We recommend the free Google toolbar available at http://toolbar.google.com

Spyware Removers

These popular freeware programs detect and removes known aggressive advertising, tracking, and other "spyware" components from your system, as well as "webjackers" which hijack your home page or create annoying toolbars.

Windows Defender features Real-Time Protection, a monitoring system that recommends actions against spyware when it's detected.
http://www.microsoft.com/athome/security/spyware/software/default.mspx

Ad-aware
http://www.lavasoftusa.com

Spybot Search&Destroy
http://www.safer-networking.org

Antivirus

We recommend the free antivirus suite AVG Antivirus available from
http://free.grisoft.com