I'M sure many of you find your e-mail full of junk messages and spam that are usually offensive, rude and useless.

Some experts have predicted that it won't be long before spam messages make up the majority of emails being sent globally.

But although there are plans in Parliament to tackle the problem, what can you do today to block messages coming into your inbox?

Windows users can download a program like Mailwasher (www.mailwasher.net) for free, which claims to drastically reduce the number of messages.

Other alternatives include SpamPal (www.spampal.org) and Spamihilator (www.spamihilator.com).

Apple's own Mail program has a built-in spam killing feature that automatically recognises it and files it away to be deleted later.

People using other Mac email programs can download MailfilterX (www.frank-blome.de/mailfilterx/) which does the same job as Mailwasher.