Rating: Summary: Fairly Effective In Reducing SPAM 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.
Rating: Summary: Pretty good Review: Spamkiller 4 does a pretty good job of catching spam. It's easy to rescue a message if it's accidentally put in the Killed folder, and it's easy to create a new filter if a spam isn't caught so you don't get it again. There's a handy icon in the system tray that shows when there's new email. This is a stand-alone program. If you are thinking about getting SpamKiller 5 or Norton AntiSpam (which integrate with your email program) be sure to read the reviews first!
Rating: Summary: Pretty good Review: Spamkiller has been very unstable. I've reinstalled it over 20 times, because it stops loading after a while. Also, it no longer is importing my Outlook addresses. The tech support chat is not much help.
Rating: Summary: Spamkiller Review: Spamkiller has been very unstable. I've reinstalled it over 20 times, because it stops loading after a while. Also, it no longer is importing my Outlook addresses. The tech support chat is not much help.
Rating: Summary: This would make good freeware Review: This is the type of product that makes you scratch your head wondering whether it was worth the purchase or not. It really doesn't add much beyond the normal filtering capabilities of MS Outlook or Outlook Express. You have to invest the time to set up rules for filtering in order to make it halfway decent. There's nothing to distinguish it from the plethora of other anti-spam software out there. McAfee recently purchased the rights to a competing anti-spam product, which many feel is a superior product (Spam Assassin). Hopefully they will use the technology to improve on Spamkiller in the future.
Rating: Summary: Kicks Most Spam Out of Your Inbox Review: This program is very effective at detecting and segregating SPAM email. However, that is where its usefullness ends. The other things to "fight SPAM" like sending error messages that your email address doesn't exist and sending complaint letters to website administrators do nothing to stop or even decrease the amount of SPAM you receive. Most of the complaint letters and error messages you send come back as "undeliverable." I bought version 4.0, and since version 4.5 is now available, my version does not work at all. I am required to purchase the new version because I already used up my 30 day free trial period.
Rating: Summary: Kicks Most Spam Out of Your Inbox Review: This program is very effective at detecting and segregating SPAM email. However, that is where its usefullness ends. The other things to "fight SPAM" like sending error messages that your email address doesn't exist and sending complaint letters to website administrators do nothing to stop or even decrease the amount of SPAM you receive. Most of the complaint letters and error messages you send come back as "undeliverable." I bought version 4.0, and since version 4.5 is now available, my version does not work at all. I am required to purchase the new version because I already used up my 30 day free trial period.
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