# What's a good spam blocker for MS Outlook?

**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-a-good-spam-blocker-for-ms-outlook/145646
**Category:** Factual Questions
**Created:** [December 30, 2002, 7:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-a-good-spam-blocker-for-ms-outlook/145646 "2002-12-30T07:57:05Z")
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### Author: ![Silentgoldfish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e36b37/32.png) [@Silentgoldfish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silentgoldfish)
#### Post date: [December 30, 2002, 7:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-a-good-spam-blocker-for-ms-outlook/145646/1 "2002-12-30T07:57:05Z")

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Pretty much what the title says.

My mum has started getting really noxious spam. Any recommendations for the best way to stop it?

It’s a business account so it can’t be changed and a whitelist wouldn’t be feasable.

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### Author: ![China\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/779978/32.png) [@China\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/China_Guy)
#### Post date: [December 30, 2002, 11:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-a-good-spam-blocker-for-ms-outlook/145646/2 "2002-12-30T11:26:51Z")

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Stupid question, do you have the MS settings turned on for the spam? Also, the filters (menu, tools, rules) work pretty well for me, although it takes a couple of tries to get them worked out. You can have the rules put everything into the trash or create a “junk” folder to check and empty periodically.

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### Author: ![Jukeball](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f17d59/32.png) [@Jukeball](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jukeball)
#### Post date: [December 30, 2002, 12:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-a-good-spam-blocker-for-ms-outlook/145646/3 "2002-12-30T12:28:00Z")

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See if you can buy a software called Spam Inspector or someone had suggested to me a soft called Mail Washer which I never got using cause Spam Inspector was really good. My junk mail had gone down to around 2 a day from around 20 -30.

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### Author: ![don\_t\_ask](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@don\_t\_ask](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/don_t_ask)
#### Post date: [December 31, 2002, 3:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-a-good-spam-blocker-for-ms-outlook/145646/4 "2002-12-31T03:27:10Z")

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[Mailwasher](http://www.mailwasher.net/) it’s from New Zealand just like Lord of the Rings, it’s gotta be good.