BANGALORE, INDIA: Spam has become a major concern and many a times, there's more of spam than legitimate mail coming into a user's mailbox. Sorting and deleting all this spam from the inbox takes a toll on productive time.

To evade spam, there are plenty of paid and free anti-spam software available.

But if you are using Vista on your desktop or laptop then you don't have to go for third party software. It offers you a mail client that is designed to protect users from bulk spam mail.

Here we will show you how to configure Windows Mail in Vista to block incoming spam. Vista Windows mail also comes with an option that detects phishing mails and protects users from getting 'phished.'

You can even define your own list of banned email IDs, in case Vista is not able to detect spam coming in from them.

Open Windows Mail, configure your account, click on 'Tools' and junk email options. Select the level of protection: No Automatic Filtering, Low, High, and Safe List Only	To block phishing attacks, configure Windows Mail by clicking Tools> Junk e-mail options. Select 'phishing' and tick 'Protect My Inbox from messages with potential Phishing Links'
Sometimes, legitimate mails get blocked and sent to junk folder. To avoid this right-click on the legitimate mail and select junk E-Mail>add Sender to Safe Senders' list	To set a block list of your own from Junk mail option go to Block Senders tab and add all the email IDs that you want to block on your Windows mail