Anonymous

East Sussex

Network Administrator

I work in the IT industry securing our office network amongst other duties. In addition I am frequently involved in helping friends out with securing and often cleaning their PCs of viruses etc (Teenagers are the worst offenders in my experience). Although my efforts are a drop in the ocean I see it as a favour to my friends (which most return in some fashion or other) and some protection for me as they all have my email address which spammers could use.
Another problem is educating them to use BCC instead of CC on mass emails to friends. Sadly I am now receiving spam at home which is probably as a result of my address being CC'd to hundreds of their poorly protected friends.
C'est la vie!

In my opinion, ISPs should offer additional spam and email filtering as part of their services. Maybe even user-configured web-based firewalling as well. For a small fee I think a lot of people would go for this. Some ISPs already offer some of these services for free - the firewalling is the trickiest one.

I also wish to remain anonymous!