Like a lot of people, the Safir family is bombarded with spam. Anna Safir doesn't want her 12-year-old opening the unwanted emails. "[Reads] 'World's Most Beautiful Women', I don't know what that would be. 'Check out some striking Russian brides'," said Safir. Consumer Reports says your first line of defense is spam controls offered by your Internet service provider. See if those help. Your second option, which Dean Gallea just tested, is buying some anti-spam software. These programs have names like SpamKiller, iHate Spam and Spam Sleuth. He also checked out junk mail filters that come with Microsoft Outlook and Apple's Mac OS X email program.
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