I have a yahoo email account for which, I think, I pay about $20.00 per year. When MS Explorer (ver 7) opens my yahoo home page, I click on my email yahoo account in my personal yahoo home page. That gets me into yahoo mail and I can look over all my messages. I check if there's any spam that wasn't caught by yahoo (and put into the SPAM folder) I then delete all spam and get out of yahoo mail.
Then I open Microsoft OUTLOOK on my desktop (not outlook express), in which I have set up my yahoo mail account (When setting up an account, just follow the easy instructions) click on send/receive (in Outlook) and down comes all my email from my yahoo account --- FREE OF ANY SPAM AND SPOOF MAIL.


THE REASON FOR MY GOING THROUGH THIS PROCESS IS THAT YAHOO HAS GOOD ALGORYTHMS TO GET RID OF SPAM, etc.
I FIND THIS TO BE A MOST COST EFFECTIVE, LEAST NERVE WRACKING, WAY TO LIVE ON THE INTERNET THESE DAYS. Hal