McAfee Spamkiller V4.0

by McAfee

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 7.2 ounces
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B00009LI57
• Item model number: MSK40EAM1RHA
• Date first available at Amazon.com: August 11, 2003
• Average Customer Review: 2.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (13 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #19,864 in Software (See Top 100 in Software)
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

From the Manufacturer

Get the email you want and nothing else. McAfee SpamKiller quickly and easily helps you stop spam from polluting your inbox with advanced rule-based and list based filtering.

SpamKiller is the Leading Anti-Spam Product for Consumers and Small Businesses

Blocks spam : SpamKiller blocks specific addresses of known spammers, just as other programs do; but SpamKiller goes far beyond lists. Its comprehensive preset filters also watch for subject lines and text within messages. In fact, SpamKiller can filter on the sender's address, subject line, body text, message header and can even block spam based on its country of origin.

Updates filters automatically: SpamKiller comes with thousands of filters already installed and new filters are released regularly, based on careful analysis of McAfee's spamtraps. SpamKiller checks McAfee servers once a day for new filters - so your protection is always up-to-date.

Filters Multiple Email Types: SpamKiller supports MSN/Hotmail, POP3 and MAPI email accounts. By directly supporting multiple client-based email applications (Outlook Express, Eudora, Netscape etc.) and Web-based email clients (MSN/Hotmail), SpamKiller enables you to benefit from its advanced filtering without forcing you to change how you access and read your email.

Community-based Reporting: SpamKiller allows you to participate in your own security by giving you the option to report spam directly to McAfee. Anti-spam experts analyze all reported spam with automated and human analysis and develop new filters to help protect the entire SpamKiller community.

Lets you create custom filters with the filter wizard (easy enough for beginners to use): If you're new to spam fighting, you'll love SpamKiller's filter wizard, which lets you create new filters based on spam messages that you've received. Simply choose the part of the message that you want to filter on, and SpamKiller does the rest.

Quarantines spam outside your inbox: Spam email is automatically placed into SpamKiller's Killed Mail folder so that your inbox remains uncluttered and free of spam. Spam email is held in quarantine and erased automatically after 30 days. If for some reason a legitimate email is flagged as spam, you can easily recover in one quick step.

Automatic friends list: To make things even easier, SpamKiller can automatically import your friend's email addresses into its friends list, ensuring that their messages aren't mistaken for spam. You may also add new friends, newsletters or complete domains to the friends list at any time.

Monitors and filter multiple email accounts: SpamKiller does more than just eliminate spam. It's also an email monitor that can check and filter email from multiple email accounts. Monitor and filter your home email from work or your work email from home - SpamKiller can alert you when new email has arrived.

Fight back against spammers: If you want to fight back, SpamKiller makes it easy to send complaints. Send automatic or manual complaints, make your email address look invalid to spammers and much more. SpamKiller automatically finds and suggests the relevant email addresses in both headers and text, so complaining to spammers, Web site hosts, ISPs or anybody else just takes a few mouse clicks. The result: more spammers have their accounts cancelled.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Requires you run other programs & spies on you, June 29, 2003

By A Customer

This review is from: McAfee Spamkiller V4.0 (CD-ROM)

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.

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars pitiful, July 19, 2003

By 

Paul Reynolds (Sanibel, FL United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: McAfee Spamkiller V4.0 (CD-ROM)

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.

12 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars I found it useless, June 6, 2003

By 

Duane Bolender (Great Falls, MT United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: McAfee Spamkiller V4.0 (CD-ROM)

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.