Originally Posted by
badger
I've had a few emails with a message saying they're protected by Spamfighter, which is free for Outlook and OE users. Looks good but before I download does anyone know anything about it? Recommend? Not?
It does say that some 'useful features' are removed in the free version but doesn't say what all of them are. It also says that a short text ad is displayed in your Email client and the 'Im protect by Spamfighter' tag is added to all of your outgoing messages. It doesn't say where the text ads come from (ie. is it just SpamFighter's own ads which I could live with or do they sell advertising to other companies).
Looks very much like SpamNet from Cloudmark which is a good anti-spam product and functions exactly the same way (ie. you report emails as spam and others are then protected from it).
Finally it also says:
SPAMfighter has partnered up with Microsoft to build the strongest, safest, and most effective anti spam tool on the market.
But doesn't elaborate on how they've partnered with Microsoft.
I'm dubious about the claims (and non-information) but it has some good reviews so I'd say give it a go and see for yourself.
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