Or, Yet Another Hotmail Anti-Spam Util. Requires Perl. Windows only at this time.

Right now this is a command-line utility, although it can be started from Explorer.

It takes your Hotmail address and password, encrypts the password (using a rather clever Assembler program) and stores them in the file CRYPTEXT.TXT. It then logs into your Hotmail account (obviously it does this first if CRYPTEXT.TXT exists) and checks it for spam. It's search algorithm compares terms stored in the file SPAMTERMS.TXT with the FROM, SUBJECT, and ATTACHMENT lines and counts the scores these terms have, which are also specified in the SPAMTERMS file:

1.0 rally
0.4 alert
0.3 ready
1.0 explosion
0.2 explo
0.2 insur
0.5 term

If the search term is found, score is incremented by the amount shown. If it is in capitals, or part of another word, the score is increased further. Other spam-like things such as capital letter / lower case letter interpolation are included, and the mail text is searched for some tell-tale signs as well.

If the total score is greater than 14, then the program decides that the item is spam and deletes it. If not, it marks the item as "unread" and moves on to the next one.

No warranty is given for this program; please read the COPYING.TXT file for details of the GPL.

Another CLI Perl program. This is the program that got me started in the fun business of killing spam. A friend of mine had a talkboard (now sadly defunct), called 2bristol.com, which was a victim of constant spamming; mods such as myself were tasked with eliminating the spam by hand. This seemed silly, so I wrote a program to do it for me, and the result was this program.

WARNING! Do not expect this program to work. If you want to actually use it, you can either modify it yourself or contact me, and I'll get it up and running for you. GNU license applies; you have to credit me, Andrew S Wade, as the original programmer.