Norton AntiSpam 2005 - Single User

by Symantec

Product Features

• Filters unwanted email messages in any POP3-compliant email program
• Integrates with Microsoft Outlook, Outlook Express, and Eudora
• Intelligent filtering engine learns what is and isn't spam
• Ad blocking speeds Web page download times and reduces screen clutter
• LiveUpdate automatically checks for new protection updates

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 4.8 ounces
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B0002RPZQU
• Item model number: 10288234
• Date first available at Amazon.com: August 17, 2004
• Average Customer Review: 1.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (24 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #5,577 in Software (See Top 100 in Software)
  • #27 in Software > Networking > Security
  • #75 in Software > Utilities > PC Maintenance

Product Description

From the Manufacturer

Symantec’s Norton AntiSpam 2005 filters out unwanted email to make your online communications safer and more enjoyable. This latest version automatically detects more kinds of deceptive, offensive, or suspicious email. Norton AntiSpam makes cleaning out spam easy by working directly with your favorite POP3 email program. Now it also filters messages coming to your Yahoo! email account. With Microsoft Outlook, Microsoft Outlook Express, and Eudora, it increases its accuracy by periodically synchronizing its list of acceptable senders with your address book. To reduce desktop clutter, Norton AntiSpam even blocks intrusive online ads.

What's New:

• Improved filtering capabilities: phishing detection--Norton AntiSpam 2005 automatically filters for fraudulent URL addresses and labels them Spam.
• Improved filtering capabilities: detects sexually explicit material--users can choose to filter sexually explicit spam so that inappropriate content never reaches the inbox.
• Improved filtering capabilities: Adds new email addresses to the Allowed List when an email is sent--scans outgoing SMTP email and automatically adds new email addresses to the allowed list. This feature does not apply on Yahoo! Web mail and Hotmail.
• Improved filtering capabilities: language-based filter--allows users to block email messages that are in selected languages.
• Improved filtering capabilities: Automatic address book update--Periodically synchronizes email address books with Norton AntiSpam’s Allowed List to increase accuracy and convenience. No manual import task is required.
• Supports Yahoo! Web mail: enables Yahoo! mail users, with or without additional email accounts, to use Norton AntiSpam 2005 to automatically detect incoming spam email into their Yahoo! Web mail seamlessly.

Product Description

Norton AntiSpam 2005 makes your online communications safer and more enjoyable. With its powerful Bayesian filtering engine, it gets even more accurate over time. Never face the annoyance of unwanted emails again!

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Not worth Buying, December 9, 2005

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Lili Cordeiro (Virginia USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Norton AntiSpam 2005 - Single User (CD-ROM)

I purchased the Norton Internet Security with the Norton Antispam hoping that it would eventualy solve my ever increasing amounts of spam in my inbox

With my daily routine of clicking this is spam - my Norton Antispam folder contained 8000 spam emails in 6 months. I checked my statistics and the logs to my astonishment - Norton Antispam did not scan 1 single email.

Reporting this 3 times during 1-2 hour live chat sessions (with their customer support) only proved to me that this product is as bad as all the reviews state. The "techs" provided me the same advice and fixs over and over again which, were all tried and failed. The phone support was equally as fustrating as the chat support and Symantec's outsourced technical support technicians seem to have a single cheat sheet page of solutions that never resolved any of my concerns.

I will do some additional research and choose anything but a symantec products. They were good in the past but failed miserably with this version. They get an D- for the software and a BIG F for customer support. Buyers Beware!!

8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Buggy Product + Terrible Support = Total Junk!, March 11, 2005

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Web Dude (San Diego, CA United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Norton AntiSpam 2005 - Single User (CD-ROM)

I work in IT and I've dealt with a lot of buggy Symantec products before but this is by far the worst one I've ever used. If you're an Outlook Express user then this program will be totally useless to you. It seems that the infamous "'This is Spam' button crashes Outlook Express" bug from the 2004 version is still there [...] After going through the usual uninstall/reinstall/change every freakin setting routine, I spent hours trying to find a solution on the symantec tech support site and on other sites with no luck. The Symantec tech support site is terrible. I couldn't find any place to report an incident through email or post it to a support forum or anything like that. And with phone support at $30/incident, I'm currently looking at how to get a refund!

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Junk - Symantec should be ashamed, December 30, 2005

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Michael J. McCaffrey - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Norton AntiSpam 2005 - Single User (CD-ROM)

Search for Amazon item number 10099566 to see an overwhelming number of bad reviews of Norton AntiSpam 2004. They didn't improve the product much in the 2005 version. It is really disgusting that Symantec has leveraged the Norton brand, formerly known for quality, with the cynical money grab that is Norton AntiSpam. Absolute junk software, with comically bad support. I hope to see a class action lawsuit against Symantec for selling this product that they certainly know is defective in a myriad of ways.