Customer Reviews

Aladdin Spamcatcher 3 Windows

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Initially, I had low expectations for this program as my previous spam filter only filtered about half of my spam. Over the course of two days SpamCatcher caught 224 out of 230 spam email messages (97%!!). As you can imagine, I was very impressed.

SpamCatcher comes in two flavors. There is an integrated Outlook version which adds a button in Outlook and a Universal option for basically any other POP mail program (eg. Eudora, Netscape, etc.). I use Pegasus Mail and the program works flawlessly with it. There is a slight initial delay every time I check email (2-10 sec), but otherwise there is no noticeable slow down (DSL connection, Pentium 4 2.4 Ghz. Notebook computer).

The program uses a variety of methods to detect spam, ranging from fuzzy logic to heuristics. However, the most powerful tool of the program might be their SpamCatcher Network (over 1 million strong according to the box). This network works by having people report spam that aren't filtered. This is entered into their database so that other users will now have that spam filtered. If you use Outlook, you can report spam emails that didn't get caught to the SpamCatcher network, but if you aren't using Outlook, you can still check your email against the network.

The program has other features such as an approved and blocked list of emails/domains, or the ability to "bounce" an email back to the sender (Outlook only).

I get a lot of spam everyday, and this program brings order to my inbox. While SpamCatcher is fairly basic in terms of options, it works. And that's what matters most.

I highly recommend it.

I ordered SpamCatcher because I felt like I was wasting a valuable chunk of time deleting spam every day. (This is using Outlook with Windows XP Professional with a DSL connection.) Now I waste a valuable chunk of time every day waiting for SpamCatcher to connect to the network and decide which e-mails to delete. While this is going on (and it takes at least as long as it would take to do it yourself), you can't really use Outlook for anything else. And fairly often, it can't connect to the network, which means you either download spam or Outlook hangs. Some of these problems seem to be exacerbated by my gatekeeper software, but they don't really go away when I turn the gatekeeper off.

Do not trust any of Anti-Spam software. they just give you more Spams, include this one. After installing this software one week, i got double spam emails than before....Just use your email provider's filter tools and do NOT click the Spam emails. you will be safer. (This is my third Anti-Spam software)