Spamkiller – A User Review
Spamkiller is one amongst the most popular brands of spam filters that help you in restricting the spams. Spams make an essential part in email communication. These are unsolicited emails that get into your email inbox. These email spams, in the beginning stages, were thought to be just some sort of annoyance. But as the technology is advancing, these bad tendencies also are increasing at the same pace. Spam is not at all entertained in the security threat era as the spam is considered as the means for destroying your information completely. As people are depending more and more on the emails for their communication, any threat to their inbox can isolate them from the world completely. Spam filters come to the rescue in such a case, to get over the risks involved with spams. Spam filters are just the tools that are used to screen your incoming mails in order to avoid the spams.
Spamkiller is a spam filter tool that possesses various unique characteristics that make it stand out in the crowd among the other spam filter tools. Hosted by the Mcafee, it offers an ease of use in filtering the spam. The common spam filters are generally programmed against the well-known spammers and so check for any mails popping out from their id. But the Spamkiller differs from the other spamfilters by filtering the mails using various parameters like the address of the sender, the message header, the message text and the subject. It has got an additional unique feature called country filter that offers the feasibility for filtering the mails based on the country from where it has been routed.
In Spamkiller, the filters are included in the program. As soon as you download the program, you can install the Spamkiller. After installing, Spamkiller will run in your system, with an envelope icon in the task bar. As an email comes to your inbox, it will automatically monitor the mails and if encounters emails, other than preferred by you, it will flash a red arrow and directs it to the spam folder. In addition, notification window pop up is also provided, using which you can easily used to view the status of your new message.
If you are sure that the email you’ve got is not spam, then you can move it out from the spam folder.
Spamkiller also assure up-to-date protection as it checks with McAfee servers daily, to download the latest spam traps. Spamkiller perform meta-character filtering and junk text identification to identify the unfamiliar email. Spamkiller have provision to directly import your address book into its friend’s list to avoid the mistakes to consider your necessary emails as spam. You can add up new address in any time. To ensure that any of your important mails are not destroyed, Spamkiller will retain the suspected spam emails in quarantine for 30 days. If you require, you can retrieve them back, or else the mails will be deleted by Spamkiller, after the quarantine period of 30 days.
Spam killer enables multiple client based email applications and web based applications, which will help you to monitor the multiple accounts, without any change in your pattern of internet usage. It supports MSN/Hotmail, POP3 and MAPI email accounts. Spamkiller also facilitate features, which help to fight against spams. You can create customized filters on Spamkiller, based on the patterns of spams, you are receiving. The community reporting facility helps you to have discussion with the anti-spam experts in McAfee about any spam emails you have received and assist in the development of spam filters for the entire community. Also, you can send complaints about the spammers to their respective email address or to web site hosts, ISP and relevant authorities, to cancel the spam accounts.
In comprehensive, Spamkiller seems to be an ideal spam filter, which can relieve your inbox from the spam mails, and its unique features enhance the utility of the spam filter. However, it has a drawback that it can monitor only a limited number of web based emails and cannot filter the AOL, Yahoo and many other web-based emails.
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