Spamkiller V4.0 for Amazon

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Summary: I found it useless
Review: A typical "you have to set the rules" piece of software. First of all, SpamKiller sits between your e-mail program and your server. When you D/L your e-mail, SpamKiller gets it first. YOU then have to decide what to let through and what not to let through. Quite honestly, I could do that just by letting my e-mail program D/L the mail and then look through it. By the time you set up enough "rules" so that SpamKiller automatically junks that e-mail, you have started to eliminate mail you want. I say "no go" on this one.

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Summary: Overall, very nice.
Review: Everything is easy to implement and works quickly over a broadband connection. There are only two drawbacks: the main one is that it doesn't integrate into your email program (Outlook, Eudora, e.g.) and a lesser one is that when you open Spamkiller it defaults to the killed (filtered) email rather than the live email, which are the ones you want to read.

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Summary: pitiful
Review: I have tried a couple of other anti-spam programs that run inside MS Outlook. This one runs seperately and is just one huge burden to operate. It even managed to lock up XP Pro operating system. It is a terrible product and I am so disgusted by it I am going to cancel my McAfee virus program also.

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Summary: Support for This Product Is Very Bad
Review: I installed this product under Windows 98 and immediately had a
problem. When running the check mail feature, it would slowly
eat up virtual memory until the swap file was >1GB and
I had to kill the process.. This could, of course, be a configuration issue
rather than a problem with the product but the real problem started when I tried to get help. Barring paying their support
line to get their product to work, the only recourse appears to be a chat line. I spent an hour on the chat line performing steps which it was obvious to me weren't the problem. The most
annoying part was that some of these steps required a reboot and thus reconnect to the chat and when I did that, I was told the person I spoke to a minute earlier was "gone for the day". This happened twice in an hour forcing me to start all over and describe the problem and what had been tried,etc. until I finally gave up on them and the product.

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Summary: Requires you run other programs & spies on you
Review: I like the spamkiller ok but it requires you to run McAfee Security Center which is an entirely different program that tells you what virus, hacker, abuse and spam software products you have and then tells you why their products are better than whatever you have and why you should give them money right away. It requires you to run this program all the time! a wasteful use of RAM! If you try to run the uninstaller, it says you must uninstall spamkiller and any of their other products first! You have to run this program if you want the spamkiller! If you disable it at the windows startup then you get an annoying window every 7 minutes saying it has been more than 7 days since security center has been able to check in with them! This is like SPYWARE to me - not a program that prevents spying but one that actually spies on what all programs you have and constantly reports that information to McAfee so they can constantly bombard you with why you need to give them money to change to their products! BEWARE.

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Summary: Mediocre Product Over-promises and Under-delivers
Review: I used Spamkiller for three months before I uninstalled it. I found that it let about 20% of spam through to the MS Outlook inbox, and failed frequently to even show this spam as "Live Mail". I would frequently wind up dowloading unexpected spam in MS Outlook, even with Spamkiller turned on. Also, I found the "retrieve text" e-mail preview feature to work erratically, sometimes hanging with the mail server. As for sending those seemingly clever "recipient not found" replies to spam originators, I noticed no difference in the volume of spam being sent to me whether I used this or not. I pulled the product off my computer when I began having other problems after installing McAfee VirusScan v8, which is a whole 'nother can of worms. I doubt that I will ever re-install it.

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Summary: Mediocre Product Over-promises and Under-delivers
Review: I used Spamkiller for three months before I uninstalled it. I found that it let about 20% of spam through to the MS Outlook inbox, and failed frequently to even show this spam as "Live Mail". I would frequently wind up dowloading unexpected spam in MS Outlook, even with Spamkiller turned on. Also, I found the "retrieve text" e-mail preview feature to work erratically, sometimes hanging with the mail server. As for sending those seemingly clever "recipient not found" replies to spam originators, I noticed no difference in the volume of spam being sent to me whether I used this or not. I pulled the product off my computer when I began having other problems after installing McAfee VirusScan v8, which is a whole 'nother can of worms. I doubt that I will ever re-install it.

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Summary: Never worked properly
Review: I wasted over eight hours trying to get this software to work properly. It frezzes up on certain spam, typically large emails. I sent an email to McAfee which was unanswered. It is MUCH easier to manually delete my own spam. I removed this software from my system and use Outlook filters only. A waste of money.

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Summary: No time to figure it out!!!
Review: Installed the software and it completely reconfigured my Outlook Express, while not helping immediately with the spam. Filters were for individual messages so each new message would have it's own filter - why bother? Probably a good program but I don't have the time to put into it. A program like this should run seamlessly! It also installed Mcaffe security center which constantly pestered me and couldn't be turned off or uninstalled without uninstalling Spamkiller!! I have uninstalled everything and will put up with the spam until they get it right.

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Summary: No time to figure it out!!!
Review: No program is going to be 100% effective in eliminating SPAM as spammers are continually coming up with ways to get around filters and the like. That being said, this is a fairly good product. After a few days of tweaking, it's been over 75% effective in reducing the amount of SPAM in my inbox. I agree with the previous reviewer in that the main drawbacks are that it doesn't integrate with your email program (I use Outlook Express) and that it defaults to viewing the killed email rather than the live email upon launching the program. So far it has been 100% effective in getting rid of the sex related SPAM and its filters have effectively removed SPAM that I know I could not have filtered myself using the message rules in Outlook Express. Overall, I am happy with my purchase.