Most people who know me will agree when I say that I’m a computer geek.  I spend hours upon hours scouring the web in search for tech info and playing with new software.  I’ve been a huge Opera fan for many years, but when they “upgraded” their mail storage format, I was upset to learn that my files had become corrupted.  Although I had backups, somehow they too had become corrupted and I was left with years of unretrievable mail archives.  It was at that point that I finally parted ways with Opera and migrated to Firefox as my browser of choice.

Although I found a replacement browser, I was less than impressed with Mozilla Thunderbird for email.  Since I had invested a large sum of money into Microsoft Office 2007 for school, I decided to give Outlook a try.  My first complaint about Outlook was the subpar anti-spam capabilities, and I started searching for plugins to address that concern.  Unfortunately, I was unable to find anything worthwhile until recently.

As it turns out, Trend Micro has a free anti-spam plugin for Outlook and Outlook Express.  The bad news is that the current version will expire on December 31, 2008.  I’m hoping they will release a new version for 2009.  Nevertheless, I thought this was worth mentioning because Trend Micro may decide to continue supporting this product if more people use it.  If you’re an Outlook or Outlook Express user, give it a try!