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11 Anti-spam Products Tested

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the filter-this dept.

An anonymous reader writes "When we achieve world peace, that's when we'll get the perfect anti-spam solution. In the meantime, ZDNet has a comprehensive review of eleven of the latest anti-spam products including solutions from BitDefender, Clearswift, CA eTrust, GFI, IronPort, MailGuard, McAfee, MessageLabs, NetIQ, Network Box and Symantec Brightmail."

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  1. SpamBayes? by opusman · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Seems like a glaring ommission.

    1. Re:SpamBayes? by snorklewacker · · Score: 5, Insightful

      Er, the glaring omission would be any mention of the effectiveness of any of these products. Am I not clicking on the right links? Because I'm seeing less than a page worth of review for each product, that seems to consist of installing it, clicking around the admin interface, then going on to the next product. It doesn't appear that they actually used the products they were reviewing!

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  2. Yawn - No OSS by OnceWas · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Where are the OSS products? No Spamassassin?

    Some review...

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  3. SpamAssassin by AnotherFreakboy · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I wonder why they didn't mention SpamAssassin. Open Source solutions will never gain the market share they deserve if media never gives them the attention they deserve. And the media will never give them attention until they get market share. It's a deadly cycle. Note: Open Source does not inherently make a product worthy of market share.

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    1. Re:SpamAssassin by RealAlaskan · · Score: 4, Insightful
      Open Source solutions will never gain the market share they deserve if media never gives them the attention they deserve. And the media will never give them attention until they get market share.

      How about:

      ``Open Source solutions will never gain the market share they deserve if media never gives them the attention they deserve. And the media will never give them attention until they [the Open Source solutions] start spending big bucks advertising with the media''.

      No chicken-and-egg stuff here: I would bet that ZDNet is following thier long-standing policy of reward^H^H^H^Hviewing their advertisers' products.

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  4. SpamBayes... by John+Miles · · Score: 4, Insightful

    ... unlike the other products reviewed, doesn't advertise on ZDNet.

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  5. Uhh by pHatidic · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Why not just use thunderbird, it already has pretty good anti-spam capabilities in it to begin with and it's free and open source. I will admit I only installed it a few hours ago so I haven't been using it very long. The reason I installed it was because Eudora for OS X was very slow and for some reason was deleting my newest email every time I tried to download new email. Thunderbird is extremely fast, has better features, no popups, and is free. So far I have encountered no bugs, except some of the spam filtering features were a little unintuitive so I had to try them all out to see what did what.

    1. Re:Uhh by alen · · Score: 3, Insightful

      this is for server side anti-spam products. some people want to stop spam before it gets into the email system

  6. Spam "products" by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Insightful

    It seems that many people these days now just look to pick up a pretty box at the store to help deal with spam. However, anyone who does this must not get important e-mail. I, for one, don't want my e-mail being filtered by some proprietary application like mcafee with limited configurability and disclosing details on how it works for "trade secret/IP" reasons. If it's an ip blocking service, I want statistics and to know how IPs get on it. If it's something statistical, I want to know exactly what it does. It is very dangerous to let your correspondence get picked apart by a "black box."

  7. The catch... by Jayde+Stargunner · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The other noteworthy point of the last page is the absolutely ridiculous statement of, "Please note that these decisions were not based on accuracy testing."

    I'm sure everyone is just amazingly psyched about an "ultimate" anti-spam guide that makes no effort to determine if the products they are reviewing (let alone proclaiming as the "winner") actually stop spam.

    Of course, I guess this kind of article is developed to benifit CIOs with no technical experience, who just want something to tell the IT department to install. (Thus: price and ease of installation are far more important than it actually doing what it is supposed to.)

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  8. Use linux to protect exchange by drsmack1 · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Setting Up a Spam-Filtering Mail Gateway For Microsoft Exchange Using Fedora Core 1, Postfix 2.0.19, Amavisd-New and Razor2 http://tinyurl.com/3khzk

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