iHateSpam 4.0.619

• Editor's Rating:

  4.0 stars

• Average User Rating:

  3.0 stars (out of 25 votes) Rate it!

• Downloads:

  9,229

• Requirements:

  Windows 95/98/Me/NT/2000/XP

• Limitations:

  30-day trial

• Date Added:

  February 14, 2006

• Previous Versions:

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Publisher's description of iHateSpam 4.0.619

From Sunbelt Software:

iHateSpam significantly reduces the endless stream of junk e-mail. It's supereasy to use; it analyzes your e-mail and places suspicious e-mails in a separate folder (in Outlook Express and IncrediMail, they're put in the Deleted Items folder). iHateSpam also can automatically create a friend's list by importing e-mail addresses from your Windows Address Book, and any e-mail from someone on your list will get through. iHateSpam works with all the popular e-mail programs: Outlook 2000 and above; Outlook Express 5 and above; Eudora 5.1 and above; and IncrediMail XE and Pro. Also, if you're running IE 6 in Windows 2000 or XP, you can filter your Hotmail right in your browser. AOL and Macintosh systems are not supported.

Editor's review of iHateSpam 4.0.619

• 4.0 stars

Although not a silver bullet, iHateSpam works well enough to handle the majority of spam you receive. The program's generous 30-day trial works with a number of e-mail clients, including Outlook Express, IncrediMail, and Eudora. The installation process walks you through the initial configuration for the e-mail clients and accounts it finds on your system. We tested the program in Outlook 2002 and found the toolbar it added easy to use, with buttons for marking e-mails as spam or not spam. Little configuration is initially required, as the program learns over time how to improve its spam recognition based on how you mark your e-mail. It creates a quarantine folder where it puts all suspected spam, and you can check this folder and easily mark any false positives. Likewise, when you mark any spam that gets through the program's filter, it automatically gets moved to the spam filter. During a two-week testing period, we found that iHateSpam caught the majority of our spam. It learned as we marked new spam, but it always seemed that some spam got through as spammers changed tactics to get around our filters. This game of keep-up does afford the pleasure of letting you feel like you're actively engaged in the fight. The filter was strict enough to catch newsletters from e-commerce sites we didn't really consider spam, but it was easy to train the program not to trash them. Although not perfect, iHateSpam is easy to use and will reduce your spam volume.

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  Version: iHateSpam 4.0.619

  "A Complete Waste of Money and Time"

  by jcpubs on July 18, 2006

  Pros: None I could find

  Cons: The most imbecilic customer support EVER..bar none! I had this junk 3 months and it kept kicking off my registration...and the clownlike customer service kept returning my emails...but among the sounds of Benny Hill music offered ZERO solutions to this junk. Never got it to work properly (and about 5 different Customer Service Clowns handled my emails, so much for ownership of a problem). I even had to send screen shots of my computer to PROVE I was following their useless instructions. Too much stress more than SPAM could ever cause me. What a laugh! Don't bother...and don't say you were not warned. A complete waste of $20. But more importantly a total waste of valuable time dealing with these nit-wits.

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