The avast! scanner is automatically set up to check incoming e-mails for viruses, however it won’t help with spam.
Recently a lot of spam is being sent using text images to avoid detection. Sometimes up to four a day get through my BTYahoo! junk filter, out of about 100 spam messages a day. I view e-mails on my BT homepage and delete these junk emails on the server before they are downloaded to my computer.
If you find the spam that gets through contains text images, then probably any spam filter will have problems detecting it.
If the spam is too much of a problem, you could change your e-mail address and be careful not to let the new address fall into the hands of the spammers. Mind you, this is hard to avoid if one of your contacts is infected with a virus, because your e-mail address is on their computer so gets stolen.
