Rodent Regatta

Last night I noted an article about tools for securing your PC. This morning, I’ve found that my copy of Ella for spam blocking is ”leaking.” Without a noticeable increase in overnight spam, I’ve awakened to more messages that made it into my inbox without getting caught by Ella. The article I linked to suggested that SpamBayes is tops in the field for blocking spam for Outlook users. It may be time to give that a try.

Then, from Silicon Valley’s morning email, I see that the author(s?) of the Mydoom virus is/are at work on variants. While I don’t like the thought of losing files or time to a virus, I despise the notion that I might be an unknowing participant in a spam scheme by allowing this into the PC.

If you’re not actively managing your PC with Spybot, Adaware, Norton Antivirus, ZoneAlarm (or a hardware firewall), Google’s pop-up blocker and spam protection, your computing experience is tedious and insecure.

• * * UPDATE * * * Jon Udell wrote an article about SpamBayes for InfoWorld.

• * * UPDATE 2 * * * Don’t lose sight of the antivirus recommendation called AVG.