SPAMFighter: You're Not Alone in the Fight Against Spam You're Not Alone in This Fight Adam Stone
How can you tell the difference between unsolicited commercial email and legitimate messages? Easy. It's spam if I say it is.
That's the premise behind SPAMFighter, a spam-filtering product that comes in a free personal version or a $29 pro version. In a fashion similar to Cloudmark SpamNet, SPAMFighter relies on the intelligence and vigilance of a community of almost 600,000 users. Any time someone receives a spam message, that user notifies the system with a single click. If several people report the same piece of mail as being junk, the system then blocks that message for all other users.
On top of this, the program uses proprietary algorithms to identify and stop many spam messages before they even hit the user community.
SPAMFighter supports Windows XP, NT, 2000, 98, or ME. It works on Outlook and Outlook Express and requires at least 64 MB of memory and 10 MB of disk space. The application supports English, German, Spanish, French, Italian, Dutch, Swedish, Norwegian, Suomi, and Danish languages.
As with many clients in this field, SPAMFighter is delivered as an Outlook/OE toolbar add-on with buttons for blocking/unblocking messages as spam as well as options for tweaking the program to your liking. Unlike some tools – Norton AntiSpam in particular – there's no delay for processing the directive when blocking or unblocking a message as spam.
In addition to the standard personal and pro versions, the developers also offer three specialized professional models. SPAMfighter Exchange Module (SEM) manages unwanted mail for Microsoft Exchange Servers in small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs), while SPAMfighter SMTP Anti Spam Server works on SMTP Servers and scales from small businesses to service-provider levels. SPAMfighter Hosted Spam Filter is geared toward companies, organizations, and individuals that have their own domain names and want a hosted solution.
