Spam Blocker Spam filtering of your Cox.net e-mail. Choose between complete elimination of the spam messages (i.e. you never see it) or quarantine suspect messages in a spam folder.     E-mail Anti-virus Scan and clean the messages that are sent to you in e-mail to remove identified, destructive viruses that may be attached. If an Infected e-mail that cannot be cleaned will be stripped You will receive a message stating that the e-mail could not be delivered to you due to a virus.

Unwanted email, commonly referred to as spam, has become a tremendous problem for everyone connected to the Internet.

Cox is leading the fight against spam with enhancements that will help you control what you see in your inbox, while also protecting you from destructive Internet viruses.

Each day, Cox blocks millions of e-mails from known spammers from ever reaching your inbox.  Cox is currently installing more than 100 new servers across the country that will allow us to offer you new e-mail filtering for spam and viruses– at no additional charge to you!

New plans in the war against Spam
A new FREE solution has been available to Cox customers since April, 2004.

Server-based Spam Filtering
These new servers support industry-leading server-based spam filtering software

Customized Spam-Filtering Levels
This new solution allows you to choose the level of spam filtering you want from no filtering at all to automatic deletion of all suspected spam.

Even More Steps
Behind the scenes, Cox is working to stop spam as well. We've stopped over 50 million spam emails a week.
 

	Privacy Protection Cox never has and never will sell any of our customer's email addresses. We value you as a customer and your privacy is important to us. learn more... Blocking Spammers Known spam abusers are blocked from sending spam over the Cox network. Our security team and special software are dedicated to searching outgoing and incoming emails. Those tagged as spammers are blocked from sending large-batch emails. learn more... Protecting Yourself Read carefully when filling out online forms and submitting any personal information. Don't give a Web-site operator your email address unless they offer the option of declining to receive email. Use multiple email addresses. When using an unfamiliar Web site or posting to a newsgroup, establish an email address for that specific purpose. This can make it easy to shut off any address that is attracting spam. Your Cox.net account comes with seven email addresses to make this easy. These tips presented with permission from the Center for Democracy and Technology. Send Us Feedback If your question about Cox's efforts to filter spam was not answered on this or the sandiego.cox.net web site, let us know.