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Summary: Norton Antispam - the good and the bad
Review: This product has me in a quandary. On the one hand it provides the simplest, and probably the best, integration with existing email programs. It also does a fine job of filtering. Unfortunately, this is at the penalty of system overhead. Be prepared for quite some slow down in internet access for both Web browsing and email sending. It seems that even if you switch off the options for Add and pop-up blocking, the functions are still operating. Since installing, both my Email, Web browsing has slowed by around 50%. The documentation is also very poor making it difficult to understand what is really implemented and modified within your system. Symantec would do better to restrict the functionality to Email spam blocking and forget, or allow proper configuration, of the additional features
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Summary: Norton Antispam 2004 by Symantec
Review: When I read and bought this item, I thought it was suppost to prevent pop-up from Ads and Block pop-up, but it really did not happen. It still has pop-up ads coming up and not block spam web site. This things does not work at all.
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Summary: Trouble in the Trial Phase!!!
Review: I tried downloading AntiSpam trial version to see how I like it,
I noticed within days that when I download my email it has slowed the process down considerable. I use netscape and when I download my email daily (about 60-70) it seems to bog down. I hope they decide to remedy this challenge. I think I'll pass for now!
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Summary: I have reviewed this product earlier--here's some new info
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As I indicated in an earlier review, this is head and shoulders above any other anti-spam program I have encountered; however, there is one little glitch that is irritating, and this is how I handle it:First, I am running Outlook Express for my e-mail, This may be the only e-mail program so affected, I don't know, but every 3 or 4 days, someone sends me an e-mail that stops the system, and won't let any following e-mails through. The first couple of times, I called up my server, and they told me that it was either a corrupted e-mail or one that was too long, and they removed it. Presto, the other messages, which had been held up at the server, came through. It's like clearing a blockage in your plumbing. Then, I started to think. Next time it happened, I closed Outlook Express and then I disabled Norton Antispam and brought up Outlook Express again, and everything, including spam of course, came through. Then, I enabled Norton Antispam again, and deleted the spam by hand.
Note: save your breath! Enabling Norton Antispam during transmission of a block of e-mails doesn't work. The entire block still comes through, including spam. It was Norton that was stopping the corrupted e-mail and stopping the system! It IS a bummer to have to delete 100 or more spam e-mails, but you can highlight a group of them and delete, just be careful not to delete the ones you want to keep, that would normally get through. As long as your e-mail is blocked, the system (at least mine) will keep sending you duplicates of the messages in front of the blockage every few minutes. It is still the best system around for killing spam, but this is an irritating glitch. Maybe they'll fix it, in time. Maybe the best answer is to begin executing spammers and the idiots who are making viruses and worms, etc., and give us back our internet. I run Norton's firewall and anti-virus, as well as an ad-blocker. I wish it wasn't necessary, but it is. Between them they catch several viruses a week attempting to break in, and almost all spam, so obviously it's a necessary precaution. P.S. I have finally had to deep-six Norton's Antispam, 2004. The reason? The corrupted messages, if that's what was causing the disruption, were happening daily. Each day, I had to disable Norton's Antispam in order to get my e-mail, and the flood gates opened, letting all the spam, through. So, what's the use? My server has a program which stops spam before it gets to me, and it's free. Some still gets through, but not much. So I have uninstalled Norton's program. Norton really needs to fix this glitch. Joseph (Joe) Pierre
author of Handguns and Freedom...their care and maintenance
and other books
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Summary: crash-prone
Review: Many say this is an elegant anti-spam product; I will never know as I'm uninstalling it now. As with other reviewers, my Outlook 2002 crashes each time I designate an email as spam (or not spam).
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Summary: DO NOT BUY - POOR CUSTOMER SUPPORT & LOCKS UP
Review: I am using a Dell laptop with Outlook 2002. Norton Anti-spam does not work. It locks up your E-mail as stated in the many other reviews here. Exactly the same problem others described, turn on Norton anti-spam and your computer basically locks up not only having a problem getting your E-mail but my computer started going so slow. Tried to call tech support but they want a credit card number immediately saying they are going to charge for tech support. Then I tried to uninstall this piece of crap program and it would not uninstall. I finally had to restore my computer to a date previous to installing norton anti-spam. please do not waste your $ 37.00 Keith
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Summary: Norton Anti-Spam. ya right!
Review: Thinking of buying Norton Anti-Spam.
Save your money till they fix this bug. This program was not released it escaped. If you use outlook express and pop3 your mail in for extra fun times.
This is because there's a Spammers out there that have written messages that lock up Norton Anti-Spam solid. Here's how the bug works.
Inside theses bad Spam messages the data has be modified to freeze Norton Anti-Spam. Here's the details. The Spam message is encoded in base 64 and just before the end of the message the
Spammer has put in a hex 0 or null. Norton Anti-spam is reading along and run's into this null and thinks it at the end of a line and freezes. What good is an anti-spam package when you can't use it to delete Spam.
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Summary: Norton Antispam 2004
Review: Downloaded the 15 day trial program. After two weeks of use I have been very satisfied with the results. It does slow down the e-mail a little, but when it checks up to 30 spam messages at a crack and puts them into the Antispam Folder, I can wait. Am using Windows XP Home and MS Outlook. Once in awhile it will display a Norton Antispam e-mail in the Inbox, but it can be clicked into the antispam folder. All Spam mail can be deleted from the Antispam folder with one click on the "Empty Antispam folder".
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Summary: OutLook Express Problems
Review: I installed Norton AntiSpam 2004 on a new XP Machine that is running Outlook Express 6.0. The problem I have is that everytime I use the 'This is Spam' or 'This is not Spam' funciton, it kills Outlook and I have to reboot to get it back up. The (and I use the term loosley) 'support' web site acknowledged the problem but says it does not happen all the time. With mine, it happens everytime. I also do not think I should pay for support that costs nearly as much as the software. Oh well, as the other post mentioned, I should have known better than to purchase a 1.0 version of SW and suggest others wait for 1.1 or 2.0. I think their test department blew it on 1.0.
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Summary: What A Pain!!!!
Review: What a worthless piece of trash. We experienced time outs down loading email 50 percent of the time running this program. The only way around it is to wait for the time out then turn Antispam off, get you email, turn Antispam back on pick the messages that are Spam, tell Norton, on and on and on-what a joke!! Want to fix it? Good luck, you will not get any help from Norton. Why in the world would they sell something like this is beyond me. We tossed 40 bucks right out the door with this one. Uninstalled and back to the hand removal method, The most irritating part is we have since found out Norton is fully aware of this problem "bug" that allows stammers to lock up the system with a null character. If they know this, why not fix it!!
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