McAfee Spamkiller V4.0 | 
| From: McAfee
Buy Used: $29.99
Rating:  13 reviews
Sales Rank: 8569
Format: Cd-rom
Platforms: Windows Nt, Macintosh, Linux, Unix, Windows 98, Windows 2000, Windows Me, Windows 95
Media: CD-ROM
Operating System: Linux
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.5
Dimensions (in): 9.6 x 8.1 x 1.6
Model: MSK40EAM1RHA
UPC: 731944521350
EAN: 0731944521350
ASIN: B00009LI57
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Condition: BRAND NEW (amazon's listing guidelines say that without the original box, it cannot be listed as new) but the CD is still sealed - also includes the manual (missing cover page) and quick start guide
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| Customer Reviews: Read 8 more reviews...
I found it useless June 6, 2003
Duane Bolender (Great Falls, MT United States)
12 out of 13 found this review helpful
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.
 Support for This Product Is Very Bad June 15, 2003
S.H. (Rancho Santa Margarita,CA)
11 out of 12 found this review helpful
I installed this product under Windows 98 and immediately had a
problem. When running the check mail feature, it would slowly
eat up virtual memory until the swap file was >1GB and
I had to kill the process.. This could, of course, be a configuration issue
rather than a problem with the product but the real problem started when I tried to get help. Barring paying their support
line to get their product to work, the only recourse appears to be a chat line. I spent an hour on the chat line performing steps which it was obvious to me weren't the problem. The most
annoying part was that some of these steps required a reboot and thus reconnect to the chat and when I did that, I was told the person I spoke to a minute earlier was "gone for the day". This happened twice in an hour forcing me to start all over and describe the problem and what had been tried,etc. until I finally gave up on them and the product.
 Overall, very nice. June 3, 2003
10 out of 11 found this review helpful
Everything is easy to implement and works quickly over a broadband connection. There are only two drawbacks: the main one is that it doesn't integrate into your email program (Outlook, Eudora, e.g.) and a lesser one is that when you open Spamkiller it defaults to the killed (filtered) email rather than the live email, which are the ones you want to read.
Requires you run other programs & spies on you June 29, 2003
10 out of 10 found this review helpful
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.
pitiful July 19, 2003
Paul Reynolds (Sanibel, FL United States)
9 out of 9 found this review helpful
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.
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