Which is your Favorite Anti-Spam?

Daniel Turini

Sarath. wrote:

favorite anti-spam software.

Spambayes.

John M Drescher

I find that to be much better than yahoo although I am a little annoyied that both get false positives and I have to at least verify the titles in the spam folder before deleting otherwise I risk loosing an important email.

John

Deflinek

Sarath. wrote:

I'd like to know which is you favorite anti-spam software.

POPFile. Also free one. It can sort many categories, not just spam/ham.

-- "My software never has bugs. It just develops random features."

Rama Krishna Vavilala

Sarath. wrote:

I'm using a free one named Spam Bayes.

SpamBayes ought to be the best. I tried SpamAssasin and SpanBayes and never looked back at SpamAssasin.

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Roger Wright

I used Spam Bayes for a long while and, while it works rather well for a free product, it has an average success rate of about 45%. That could well be my fault, as I set the parameters conservatively to avoid false positives, and you may have better results. Two weeks ago I purchased CA Internet Security Suite, and it's anti-spam features are quite good - much better than Spam Bayes. Having used CA EzTrust antivirus software for years (and loving it) I had high hopes for its replacement, and the antispam part seems to fulfill the promise. Unfortunately there are some serious performance issues with the suite which I'm hoping to resolve via email support. Either the firewall or the AV portion of the product is consuming 65% - 99% of CPU time and preventing even simple web surfing most of the time. I suspect it's just a bad install, and their solution will be to reinstall the package. How likely is it that anyone would purposely write software that reloads a certain dll every ten seconds, after all?:doh: If it can be made to work correctly, this promises to be a very cost effective product. Either way the cookie crumbles, I'll write a review once the issues are resolved. Watch this space.:-D

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hairy_hats

Thunderbird.

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Sarath C

It's working fine for me too :)

-Sarath_._ "Great hopes make everything great possible" - Benjamin Franklin

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Anand Vivek Srivastava

I have not got any personal mails filtered, but did get some newsletters marked wrongly. But after a couple 'not spam' clicks they start getting correctly i think. I may be wrong though(I have managed to fill only 12% of my account so not really experienced)

Eric Goedhart

Hi, Spamihlator http://www.www.spamilator.com/[^] works real good (Free Version)

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Sarath C

It's misleading to some other site. Googling also didn't help me :(

-Sarath_._ "Great hopes make everything great possible" - Benjamin Franklin

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Paul Watson

Running it through gmail works nicely.

regards, Paul Watson Ireland FeedHenry needs you

Shog9 wrote:

eh, stop bugging me about it, give it a couple of days, see what happens.

Radoslav Bielik

He just mistyped the URL, it's called Spamihilator, and the websites is http://www.spamihilator.com/ [^]. I'm using it too, it's free but there hasn't been a new version for some time now, so I don't know if it's still maintained. It works quite well though, and after training it in the beginning, it now filters out most of my spam with false positives being very rare. Rado

ed welch

Favorite anti-spam? Not letting the spammers get their grubby hands on my address in the first place ;)

Chris Maunder

Impossible. Brute force attacks on domain names will find anything. :sigh:

cheers, Chris Maunder

CodeProject.com : C++ MVP

Chris Maunder

We use Cloudmark at CodeProject. We briefly used Barracuda but after a week of missing messages, then finding them, marking them as white, and again having them block I threw that out. Horrible, horrible system.

cheers, Chris Maunder

CodeProject.com : C++ MVP

ed welch

I doubt it. The task possible permutations are in the billions and you have to confirm each one.

Anonymuos

yahoo mail :-D Really, at least the spam filter is better!

Shog9 0

GMail Not passing my email address around Thunderbird In that order. GMail has rather good filters, an uncommon name on an uncommon domain goes a long way, and Thunderbird takes care of the rest.

I am tired and sleepy that's why i am at office. -- Adnan Siddiqi, The Soapbox's Future

Chris Maunder

Dictionary attacks on emails servers definitely happen. Take a look at this report[^]

cheers, Chris Maunder

CodeProject.com : C++ MVP

ed welch

Well, I think they are only talking about the spammers targeting specific domains. In general it's not going to work. There's must be about a million domains in existance and then another million possible email addresses for each domain.