The spam in my e-mail and the time needed to remove it keeps growing.
While it is difficult to avoid all of it without loosing some useful
mail I would imagine that it should be possible to blacklist some
keywords such as "sexually explicit" "viagra" "it is me" etc.and thus
eliminate some of the spam. How can this be done? I have Norton internet security
Internet security.

create a message rule in your Outlook to move those messages that
contain the words u wanna filter to a spam folder or trash.

Hi Vaac,

I've tried lots of things. Recently I installed Spyware Stormer. The
basic version is free. Seems to work quite well. I still get crap, but
it works like this: It acts as a filter to your real mailbox. All mail
is intercepted. If a new or even old mailer sends you a message, you
have choices. You can accept all messages from a domain, or reject all
messages from same. Give it a go.

Phil

I use Mailwasher
It is not that brilliant, but it allows you to preview the stuff
before you download it with another Emailer.
Also to set up filters and blacklists.

Sadly, the real solution is to be change your Email address and be
careful who you give it to - and then change it again - after it gets
swamped.

vaac-ga:

In addition to the other suggestions offered here, you can consider
using a service like www.spamgourmet.com  (or similar) and get "throw
away" email addresses for shopping and other temperorary purposes. 
Also, consider using an e-mail program like Thunderbird (
http://www.mozilla.org/products/thunderbird/ ) which has intelligent
spam filtering build in.  I use both of the above and they are both
free.

--
I am not an official GA researcher.

Hi,

in addition to spamgourmet another nice service is www.mailinator.com.
No need to sign up there. Very often you are asked for you email
address just to be able to sign up somewhere or download something
(get a download-link). Just enter someword@mailinator.com as your
email address. The confirmation mail (or download link) is available
to you by going to above mentioned site and just log in with
"someword".

To get rid of the every-day spam I did the following:
- I am using Opera Mail (formerly known as M2). The mail client of the
Opera Browser. It has a very good (and learning) Spam filter.
- In addition to that I asked my provider to install server-based
spamfilters on the mailserver. In my case it is Spamasassin and
serveral procmail filters.

I used to get like 20-50 spam messages a day. Only 1-4/d get through
the server-based filters and the rest is filtered by my mail client.

I hope this information helps.