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I am sure my K9 filter would flag this as spam and it will go in my spam inbox and be deleted after a few days...
"notice and notice" will be unnoticed :)

10 desktops, lightweight, free, portable, allows window exclusion - works great
http://keir.net/bosskey.html

I couldn't find active links for one or two of them myself, but here's an updated list -- in some cases these aren't the original sites, which have disappeared, so obviously it's worth being extra careful with antivirus software... apologies for the mess of links; the filter doesn't like short lines...

1by1 (play MP3s), AriskKey (recover passwords), AutoRuns (enumerate startup tasks), BurnCDCC (burn ISO images), CD (basic CD player), CDex (rip CDs + convert MP3/WAV), Copier [0X Copy Machine] (scan + print), CWShredder (clean spyware), DComBob (tame DCOM), DirLister (make quick file lists), Discover (force windows onscreen), DupeLocater (find and clean), FileRecovery [PC Inspector] (undelete), Folder2ISO (use with BurnCDCC), FoxitReader (read PDFs), GUIPDFTK (split/join PDFs), HijackThis (find spyware), HJSplit (split/join files), Identify_Boards (identify hardware), KatMouse installer (due to MS drivers), LCISOCreator (make ISO image from CD), Leaktest (test firewall), Microsoft keygen (people lose things), MultiRes (change res + force refresh), Multi Timer (stopwatch), NoteTab Light (text editor), NTest (test monitor setup), OnTop (pin windows to foreground), Process Explorer (task manager), ProduKey (recover passwords), Registry Commander (virus cleanup), ResHacker (examine executables), Rootkit Revealer (just in case) ShootTheMessenger (turn service off), Shred by AnalogX (simple filer shredder), TedNPad (unicode text editor), TFT (dead pixel locator), UNPnP (tame SSDP), UPX (compress executables), UnitConverter (what it says), utorrent (basic torrent app), VCdControlTool (mount ISO images),

And here's a link to their website: http://www.keir.net/k9.html

I'd recommend Thunderbird as an email client but its spam filtering is pathetic. I always tell people to use a third party plug-in like K9 which you can find at http://www.keir.net/k9.html.

My Bayesian spam filter, k9 has had only 4 false positives in six months. All of them were from HTML messages composed in Word. Seems that a lot of spammers don't know HTML and use Word to compose their spam as well.

Our company sends out a newsletter and I have (successfully) fought the same battle against HTML. Outlook 2003 doesn't even render external images anymore, so if it's a question of beauty just show your boss what that email looks like without its images.

So how come K9 is not in the list of tested products? It is small, ultra efficient and it doesn't cost a thing. Same goes with POPFile which uses Bayes to classify not only spam from ham but also works as a smart filtering proxy.

I eventually found myself doing exactly that, and running POPFile as an anti-spam proxy POP3 server, which can be run on multiple operating systems including Windows and Linux, and allows you to run use your email client of choice.

I've also heard good things about K9 on the Windows side, which supposedly has a smaller memory footprint than POPFile, but can only be run on the one OS.

An excellent spam filter for Windows is K9 found here.

The best windows spam filter is k9. Popfile is every so slightly more accurate, but since it's written in perl instead of a compiled language, takes up loads of memory and is slower. I get 99.98% accuracy with K9, and I get a lot of spam-- 352 per day to be exact, 5.94% of my total mail volume.

How long was the training period? Does that count too? Many filters can maintain complete 100% accuracy over finite periods of time (4,000 - 10,000 messages ) once they're trained - such as...

Maybe a good middle ground would be that at the end of the year (or maybe month), AOL were to send an email to their clients "Our filters blocked XXXX emails identified as spam from reaching your mailbox." (It would have to be infrequent enough that they don't consider it worse than the spam they're preventing.)

I like the way K9 shows its statistics. Although, I'd prefer it showed it only once instead of twice.

Just started trying it out for a review. Almost as good as Thunderbird for spam filtering.

For web ad/pop-up blocking, I still recommend the no-longer-maintained Proxomitron. A proxy-based filter that screens for banner ads and pop-ups. It's got a very active user base and mailing list.

While I question the value on a laptop, for desktops, I always install the latest version of Motherboard Monitor. It keeps an eye on your system's health - temperature and fans. Again, probably not as useful (or even compatible) for a laptop.

My Bayesian spam filter has caught every SoBig.F virus after the first one -- but it's not catching the 100-and-counting "Your email contained a virus!" autoresponses. I can't classify them as spam because bounces are usually important.

And then, the stealth spyware networks collecting profits from using the cycles of millions of unsuspecting users.

Both types of firewall are needed - and with new ways for malicious apps to piggyback onto legitimate ones like Firehole, an up-to-date personal firewall that can handle DLL injection (I believe the latest ZoneAlarm does as does version 2 of Outpost - currently in beta) should be thought of as a necessary companion to the corporate firewall. An application firewall like System Safety Monitor should also be considered - properly configured this can stop any spyware in its tracks.

Finally, restricting Active Content (ActiveX, Javascript and Java) to only a few "trusted" sites will do a great deal to prevent users from being affected by drive-by downloads, home page hijacking and various other forms of malware. A good reference on these can be found at Eric Howes' Privacy and Security Site.

Neutron is a 9 KB app that does a quick synchronise. It doesn't stay in the background gobbling resources, and can be set up to synchronise and close on startup. Oh, and it works under 2K :)

What if McAfee or some other software vendor were to prevent the FBI software from doing what it was designed to do? Would that act be considered an obstruction of justice? If so, would the vendors themselves be held liable? It sounds to me like McAfee is just trying to remove themselves from this possibility.

Or perhaps the FBI has already threatened them with this scenario.

Furthermore, considering the recent revelation regarding the recent 'firehole' exploit, this tool could be a real threat, even if you are running personal firewall software. Of course, I doubt anything other than Windows will be targeted...

What I'd like is something that will log all net access on a Win98 box, and will note the program doing the accessing. I chased a phantom on my box for 3 days last week. Every 8-10 minutes, it woke up the router with a DNS query but I could never catch the offender on netstat. Went away on a reboot, but I'd sure like to be prepared the next time something decides to lurk like that.