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Summary: I removed it after two weeks. It's totally ineffectual
Review: For example, you are susposed to be able to block entire domains from sending you spam. I blocked @china.com repeatly with no obvious results. The software relies on ten year old technology and doesn't keep up with spamers. Don't waste your money.
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Summary: reduced my spam by 90% or more
Review: I have been using this product for several months now and have been really happy with it. I use it with Outlook at work and Outlook Express at home. I have to admit to being surprised by some of the recent bad reviews. I was never added to any mailing lists for w2k News or anything else associated with this product. I did notice that on the download page that there is a box you can check if you want to subscribe to w2k News... and it is already checked so you have to uncheck it before downloading if you don't wish to subscribe. But if you haven't done that, you're subscribed and it's not really spam because you gave them permission to send it. Since it's a trustworthy company and not a spammer, I'm sure you could just use the unsubscribe in the email if you don't want it anymore. As for having their emails automatically added to my friends list, that never happened to me either. In fact, I just went back to check my friends list and the only addresses on it are ones from my address book that I told the program to import.
This program filtered the majority of my spam and I couldn't be happier with it. I love being able to add entire domains to my enemies list, and I found that bouncing the emails really did reduce the amount of spam that came in. The down side being that you can't bounce anything from msn, yahoo or aol. But I don't think that's a fault in the program, it just has to do with those domains. I've tried several spam programs and this is the best I've used. I've recommended to everyone.
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Summary: Shady company practices
Review: I just purchased iHateSpam recently and am impressed by it so far. However, what I am not impressed with is that fact the when I ordered the product, I was added to a SPAM list for W2KNews.
I never agreed to be signed up for this service. I find it amazing and appalling that a software company who creates software to eliminate spam would sign their customers up to another spam list, WITHOUT PROVIDING ANY OPTION. I really don't care if it's "complimentary" or not. It's still spam if I did not agree to it. If I do receive any of these W2Knews emails, I will be quite happy to use your Report function and add them to the iHateSpam Learning Network.
One more thing, I did not appreciate the software adding their domains to my "friends" list automatically -- sunbelt-software.com, w2knews.com, winxpnews.com, wxpnews.com. This also seems to be a rather shady practice
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Summary: Bad company practices
Review: This software is good at filtering spam. However, I have two major beefs with them. When I bought the software, they signed me up for one of their newsletters W2Knews without giving the option not to sign up. I find it incredible that a software company who develops a program to eliminate spam, would sign me up for SPAM when I bought it. Also, you may notice that they add their own domains -- sunbelt-software.com, w2knews.com, winxpnews.com, wxpnews.com to your "friends" list when you install. Seems like a pretty shady practice to me. I'm still in shock that they would do this.
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Summary: At least the price is low
Review: I was very disapointed with this product. Missed about half of my spam and performed poorer than the freeware solutions I had been using. The interface is easy to use but if it isn't going to catch the spam, what's the point? The highly promoted "learning network" seemed to lend no improvement at all to this software. I would suggest people shell out some more money for Cloudmark's Spamnet rather than waste their money on a product that offers almost no improvement at all. The only good thing is that it generated very few false positives.
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Summary: Steer clear of iHateSpam and Sunbelt Software!!
Review: I purchased iHateSpam based on a review I saw in a magazine, only to discover that this product dumped all of my emails (some 2 years worth!!), and caused Outlook to lock up permanently. I called their customer service a few days ago and got the run around, and they told me there was nothing they could do, and that I would have to reformat and reinstall Windows 98!! Thanks for the help guys!! I also discovered that this company is known for their spam - I guess it's otherwise known as JOB SECURITY!!
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Summary: iHateSpam
Review: No better then the block that is part of Outlook Express. I think this is a waste of money.
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Summary: Great Program
Review: I HATE SPAM really works and further more its fun -- it shows you the email and then deletes the ones that you have marked as SPAM.
The program gets better as you use it, since after you have initially marked email as spam, then it remembers that the next time such email comes.
I used to get an average of 100 email a day, now I still get that same amount, but I HATE SPAM takes care of the ones I don't want.
...its a great buy
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Summary: Works, but crashes (is unstable)
Review: "IHateSpam" filters do a marvelous job of detecting spam content, and with the right settings, give zero false positives. That's the good news. The bads news is, it is unstable. Filtering is erratic in that sometimes, it forgets to filter, and other times it leaves out folders you have selected for auto-cleaning. The other problem is the "crashing". It would get to a point, that clicking absolutely anything after getting your mail, would cause Outlook to simply close. Clicking the button that dumps the spam would do the same thing. Ultimately, my only option was to remove the program. I did re-install, and after a few days of use, the same problems would occurr again. I have notified Sunbelt and will report on any solutions they may have. I use Windows XP and have a very stable system, and Dell equipment.
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Summary: reduced spam dramatically
Review: Our email provider has a spam filter. In spite of this filter we were 20 were getting through the filter per day. After installing and setting up this program only a few are getting through. It's not perfect but it's a great improvement
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