I've gotten several of these types of e-mails recently.  Some of the e-mails assure me that I've won the lottery in the UK (among other things).  I don't live in the UK, and I don't even play the local lotteries where I do live.  So these e-mails go straight into my Junk folder: with all of their embedded links, etc. automatically disabled.  So far, I haven't had to manually intervene in order to deal with a single one of these messages.  The software has automatically taken care of all of them for me.

A hardware firewall together with a software firewall operating behind it -- especially one that's good at the chore of checking incoming e-mail -- will keep out around 95% of what's out there.  Outlook 2007 seems to be pretty good at the task of filtering e-mail, too.

But then of course: there's always that other 5% to keep in mind.

My software firewall has fended off several fragmentation attacks recently -- not e-mail related.  Fragmentation attacks are attempts to get around a router's hardware firewall, and into a local network.

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