any thoughts on (spam filter)

Gentle Ben said:
...any thoughts or comments over regular AV software, ie Trend Micro, Nortons, Mcaffe etc

1. Most ISPs already have SPAM filtering, it ususally needs to be enabled on the web interface, but will also work the POP3/Outlook interface.

2. Try Popfile:
http://popfile.sourceforge.net/
It's free and it works fairly well once it's tuned.
 
thunderbird has some decent spam filtering built in once you train it.
 
I use spamarrest its GREAT ... a lot of people on the otherside find it annoying because they have to enter in the image key. but as long as I only get wanted email in my inbox I am happy with it.
 
if one happens to be lucky enough to run there own mailserver... it would be good to run a combination of spamassassin, clamav [inline antivirus] and amavisd [all running under postfix].

the combination of the three tools has reduced the amount of spam in my network by a good two thirds or three quarters.

[some assembly required]
good luck