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| From: McAfee
Buy Used: $29.99
Rating:  13 reviews
Sales Rank: 9089
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
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| Customer Reviews:
Showing reviews 6-10 of 13
 Fairly Effective In Reducing SPAM July 2, 2003
K. Karnowski (Huntington Beach, CA USA)
8 out of 10 found this review helpful
No program is going to be 100% effective in eliminating SPAM as spammers are continually coming up with ways to get around filters and the like. That being said, this is a fairly good product. After a few days of tweaking, it's been over 75% effective in reducing the amount of SPAM in my inbox. I agree with the previous reviewer in that the main drawbacks are that it doesn't integrate with your email program (I use Outlook Express) and that it defaults to viewing the killed email rather than the live email upon launching the program. So far it has been 100% effective in getting rid of the sex related SPAM and its filters have effectively removed SPAM that I know I could not have filtered myself using the message rules in Outlook Express. Overall, I am happy with my purchase.
No time to figure it out!!! July 19, 2003
8 out of 9 found this review helpful
Installed the software and it completely reconfigured my Outlook Express, while not helping immediately with the spam. Filters were for individual messages so each new message would have it's own filter - why bother? Probably a good program but I don't have the time to put into it. A program like this should run seamlessly! It also installed Mcaffe security center which constantly pestered me and couldn't be turned off or uninstalled without uninstalling Spamkiller!! I have uninstalled everything and will put up with the spam until they get it right.
 Kicks Most Spam Out of Your Inbox August 2, 2003
Aaron J. Rakhra (Monte Sereno, CA United States)
8 out of 10 found this review helpful
This program is very effective at detecting and segregating SPAM email. However, that is where its usefullness ends. The other things to "fight SPAM" like sending error messages that your email address doesn't exist and sending complaint letters to website administrators do nothing to stop or even decrease the amount of SPAM you receive. Most of the complaint letters and error messages you send come back as "undeliverable." I bought version 4.0, and since version 4.5 is now available, my version does not work at all. I am required to purchase the new version because I already used up my 30 day free trial period.
I found it useless June 6, 2003
Duane Bolender (Great Falls, MT United States)
5 out of 5 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.
This would make good freeware September 26, 2003
Travel & Tech (San Francisco Bay Area)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
This is the type of product that makes you scratch your head wondering whether it was worth the purchase or not. It really doesn't add much beyond the normal filtering capabilities of MS Outlook or Outlook Express. You have to invest the time to set up rules for filtering in order to make it halfway decent. There's nothing to distinguish it from the plethora of other anti-spam software out there. McAfee recently purchased the rights to a competing anti-spam product, which many feel is a superior product (Spam Assassin). Hopefully they will use the technology to improve on Spamkiller in the future.
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