Hi, Look, spam is going to happen in your emails due to the very fact you surf the net. Just going to a few select pages doesn't mean you are safe because while you are up on the web for any length or visiting what you consider the cleanest of sites is no protection. There are special robots on the web that harvest peoples email address and then despatch them to their owners who in turn send you all their trash mail. Here in the South eircom claim to have a spam mail filter which stops this problem but how good it is I don't know and also it is not a free service I believe. As for having spybot and add-aware these programs don't stop spam mails but simply remove any hidden spyware that is resident on your computer. It helps a lot to keep spyware off your machine as the parasites that get into your PC from the net can cause lots of problems far worse than spam emails do. Don't however think because you have either one of the above mentioned programs on your PC that you should have no bother with spam mails. Paul. -----Original Message----- From: vicsireland-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:vicsireland-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Susan Sent: 22 July 2006 08:02 To: vicsireland@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [vicsireland] Re: Spam Hi Maureen, I also have just started to get all this span mail too, I don't know why this should be, I was never bothered before, in fact if I got one a month. I'm running spybot and avg, and I delete my cookies every couple of days too, as well as running as-aware. I don't know why this has suddenly started to happen. susan ----- Original Message ----- From: "maureen newell" <mcnewell@xxxxxxxxxx> To: <vicsireland@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Friday, July 21, 2006 10:07 AM Subject: [vicsireland] Spam I am getting a considerable amount of spam such as adds and such like, is there any way of getting rid of them? Maureen.