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Anti-Spam Software for Mom?

Posted by Cliff on from the software-for-the-rest-of-your-family dept.

daemondev asks: "As a software engineer and FreeBSD user, I've had no problem setting up and using the early anti-spam solutions like Spam-Assassin, TMDA and PopFile. I'm reasonably happy with where I am today, but it certainly could still be better! On the other hand, these solutions are not at all appropriate for my mom, who now has a huge spam problem (she really doesn't need all of that Viagra). I'm looking for something that works "out of the box" and doesn't require a lot of in depth knowledge about email and text filters, and which ideally doesn't need to be updated and replaced continuously. She uses Outlook 2000 on Windows ME. Has anyone found a good package that they would trust to stop spam but that's easy enough for their mom to use?"

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  1. CloudMark's SpamNet by LaRIC · · Score: 5, Informative

    Cloudmakr produces SpamNet. It works great for me. I get between 300-400 spam per day and it removes about 95% of those. you can find the product on http://www.cloudmark.com/products/spamnet/

    1. Re:CloudMark's SpamNet by icemax · · Score: 4, Interesting

      One little problem, CloudMark SpamNet has alienated the entire community it is based on. For 11 months, it was touted as totaly free community-based spam detection (using p2p bayesian filtering AFAIK), while the end-users beta-tested it. Now, as they reached their 1.0 release, a decision was made to charge $3.99/month for the "service" (which the community created by classifying mail as spam w/ their client). Read more on it here

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    2. Re:CloudMark's SpamNet by FrenZon · · Score: 4, Informative

      There is spamassassin for outlook, available here

      Personally, I'm using a combination of SpamBayes and the aforementioned cloudmark, although once my 30 free days runs out, I'll just be using spambayes, which seems much more accurate.

  2. Here's one by Frequanaut · · Score: 5, Informative

    The Mozilla mail client (thunderbird).

    After training it for about a week, I don't think I've had one false positive, and *very* few missed.

    Plus the added benefit of it being less of a security risk for her as well.

  3. Popfile by spu · · Score: 4, Informative

    I use Popfile It's a Bayesean filter that is configured with an HTML interface. Very easy to use, and fairly accurate.

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