Dealing With Spam & Viruses
For the past few years, we have been trying to cope with the growing onslaught of spam popping into our email accounts by checking them via the free Mail2Web service before downloading them into our main Eudora email program. With almost 1,000 messages per day, this was taking us hours every day. With the huge virus worm that started zipping around the Internet last week, we started receiving almost triple that level of incoming mail, most of which had virus attachments. It was taking forever to clean things up via Mail2Web.

I noticed some people in the Lucianne.com discussions mention the MailWasher program for dealing with this. After doing some checking around the net to ensure that it was in fact reliable and not going to create more problems, as many such utilities do, I downloaded the program and tried it out. I was hooked immediately on how much more efficiently it allows us to review what tins are in our email accounts and to remove them before they ever make it to our computers.

I actually noticed that I had downloaded a copy of MailWasher back in March 2002, but had never installed it. I wonder why not. (can anyone say Tax Season?)

The program is free. However, I went ahead and sent them the $30 registration fee, which I always do for programs that I appreciate using. People, especially small one person operations, who design useful computer programs, deserve to be rewarded and encouraged. MailWasher has already saved me many times that amount by allowing me to clean up and stay on top of our email accounts in a fraction of the time it was taking with Mail2Web.
- posted by Kerry M. Kerstetter, MBA~CPA~ATP~ATA @ 2/10/2004 11:28:00 AM Send this post: