Hi!
Spam is becoming less of a problem here in the house...we have changed to the Firefox browser.....99% of it is the same as I.E. and we got very quick used to it, no popups anymore etc...
And we have changed to the Thunderbird e mail program.....takes a bit of getting used to but it has filters and such, built in and after now, 2 weeks, using it.....it can now automatically remove about 80% of the spam that comes in, and the longer you "teach" it to recognise the spam....the better it will get. It won't work with "hotmail" though, but all other stuff, settings, addresses, accounts and such were just "imported from the I.E, all easy stuff to do, took about 10 minutes to get it up and running.
We have been happy to stop using the the MS stuff, there was just too much krap coming in, and as you work with the net, you know how many bugs there are in I.E. that cause it to not correctly read the HTML....the more I read and learn...the more I want to get away from the MS stuff....take a look at these two free programs....peace!