Add a spam filter, firewall, or, best of all, an anti-spyware program.

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Set up an anti-spyware program, firewall, or filter that keeps spam and other junk out of your system.

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Yet ironically, as Microsoft slowly improves the security of its products by, for instance, incorporating firewall technology, anti-virus systems and spam filters its actions increasingly start to resemble those that, in the past, have got the firm into trouble with regulators.

ECONOMIST: Microsoft