Norton 360 v6--only £24.99 when you spend £30 or more
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System Requirements
- Platform: Windows NT / 98 / 2000 / Me / XP / 95
- Media: CD-ROM
- Item Quantity: 1
Product Features
- Import or export your black list and white lists
- Customize your protection from Lenient to Exclusive
- Four powerful Anti-Spam Engines keep your email inbox clean: SpamBulk, SpamRepute, SpamContent, SpamTricks
- The SpamCatcher Network tracks millions of messages in real-time
- Patent pending technology actually fingerprints each email
- Automatic updates every hour with the latest filters and fingerprints
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Product Description
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"SpamCatcher is worth the cost". PC Magazine’s Editors’ choice.
Sunday Herald
Emerging triumphant as the experts popular choice is SpamCatcher.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Well, I give it five stars for its usefulness, but only about 2 for ease of installation.
I have Norton Antivirus installed and there is a conflict between this product and the Norton product. (I had tried Norton Antispam before but it didn't work for me.)
I think however, since the first reviewer's attempt at installing it, the manufaturers have taken note, because there is now some online help on their website for users of Norton Antivirus. The help still isn't very clear as it is clearly written by teckno-geeks rather than someone who communicates in English. That said, if you take it slowly, you will probably muddle through getting it set up, and it is worth the trouble.
I'm a 200 spam a day man myself (across four email accounts) and all this spam was starting to drive me mad! As I mentioned above, I tried the Norton product which was fine at first, but after a month or so, it started to play up so badly, that I was spending more and more time restarting Outlook Express because Norton kept making the computer hang.
I've left it a few weeks before I reviewed the Aladdin product to make sure there were no problems yet to manifest themselves, but there haven't been, and I am very pleased with the product and would recommend it.
7 of 8 people found the following review helpful
If spam emails were cigarettes, I would have an awful cough! I am a 130-a-day man! Seeking to stem the flow of offers ranging from bamboo mats to oil tankers that comprise 80% of my daily Inbox messages, I tried out some free solutions before deciding that SpamCatcher was for me. I use Outlook Express and Windows 98, supported by its 'universal' version supplied on the disc.
The large box contains the disc and a pamphlet sized manual that takes a few minutes to read and includes general advice on self-protection on the Internet.
Setup started as expected with the usual wizard to navigate and seemed straightforward enough. However, it left an incomplete installation and, only through research of the publisher's help section on the Aladdin web site and some trial and error did I get this product working. What should have taken minutes took closer to an hour.
The main problem areas were my use of Norton Antivirus with which SpamCatcher cannot share port 110 - one has to designate a proxy port instead. The wizard that is supposed to configure Outlook Express 6 (OE6) failed to touch its settings and these had to be entered manually.
Folders required within OE6 for the function of the software had to be created manually and I am doubtful as to whether the 'scan Outlook Express folders' option to teach the program about new messages to be blocked actually works. I can find no way to rank messages by score other than to block them outright and can only assume that this facility is absent from the version I am using.
With the headaches of installation over, my initial impressions of usefulness are positive. SpamCatcher works! Even in these early days, it is identifying spam and removing it from view pending deletion via a mail rule (yes, that had to be entered the long way too).
My verdict, therefore, is that the product does what it says on the box, but I can only recommend it to those users possessing technical ability with both the finer workings of Outlook Express and Windows port configuration. If you are a novice, you may struggle to get this working on your machine due to the lightweight manual and ill-presented online help material.
The program includes 12 months support so it is to be hoped that deficiencies will be rectified in future releases.
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8 of 9 people found the following review helpful
Amazing and simple! But limited options if not using Outlook
6 July 2004
Initially, I had low expectations for this program as my previous spam filter only filtered about half of my spam. Over the course of two days SpamCatcher caught 224 out of 230 spam email messages (97%!!). As you can imagine, I was very impressed.
SpamCatcher comes in two flavors. There is an integrated Outlook version which adds a button in Outlook and a Universal option for basically any other POP mail program (eg. Eudora, Netscape, etc.). I use Pegasus Mail and the program works flawlessly with it. There is a slight initial delay every time I check email (2-10 sec), but otherwise there is no noticeable slow down (DSL connection, Pentium 4 2.4 Ghz. Notebook computer).
The program uses a variety of methods to detect spam, ranging from fuzzy logic to heuristics. However, the most powerful tool of the program might be their SpamCatcher Network (over 1 million strong according to the box). This network works by having people report spam that aren't filtered. This is entered into their database so that other users will now have that spam filtered. If you use Outlook, you can report spam emails that didn't get caught to the SpamCatcher network, but if you aren't using Outlook, you can still check your email against the network.
The program has other features such as an approved and blocked list of emails/domains, or the ability to "bounce" an email back to the sender (Outlook only).
I get a lot of spam everyday, and this program brings order to my inbox. While SpamCatcher is fairly basic in terms of options, it works. And that's what matters most.
I highly recommend it.
0 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Do not trust it.
17 Oct 2004
Do not trust any of Anti-Spam software. they just give you more Spams, include this one. After installing this software one week, i got double spam emails than before....Just use your email provider's filter tools and do NOT click the Spam emails. you will be safer. (This is my third Anti-Spam software)
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