Vijay Bhatter

Friday, October 17, 2003

How to handle Spam

I used to spend at least an hour a week deleting spam from my in-box. Then I discovered filters that would do the job for me. The best, like Spamihilator and IHateSpam, plugs directly into any POP3 compliant mail client like Outlook, Outlook Express (OE), Eudora and catches 80 to 90 percent of the junk, funneling suspect messages into a folder.

Of course, they're not perfect--I still have to delete missed spam from my in-box and review the folder for legit mail that's been caught by mistake--but I spend minutes on the job instead of hours.

So if you are also one of the victims of Spamming. And you user POP3 compliant mail service. I would definitely advice you all to download Spamihilator. IT's FREE and Delete more than 90% of your Spam-Mails! Which could be brought to 98% if you train the software a little.

Spamihilator works between your Email-Client-Software and the Internet and examines every incoming eMail. Useless spam mails (Junk) will be filtered out. This process works completely in the background.

http://www.spamihilator.com

The new Learning Filter (Bayesian Filter) uses the rules of Thomas Bayes (english mathematician, 18th century) and calculates a certain Spam-Probability for every eMail. You can train this filter! So it will know your messages even better than you and continuously increase the recognition rate.

In addition Spamihilator uses a Word-Filter, that searches messages for known keywords.

Of course, Spamihilator supports Plugins. These useful additional filters protect your system against annoying Spam-Messages.

The program runs with almost every Email-Software, such as Outlook 2000/XP/Express, Eudora, Mozilla, Netscape, IncrediMail, Pegasus Mail, Phoenix Mail, Opera, etc...

The best thing I liked about the software is that Spamihilator is absolutely free!

I hope you would find this tip useful. Keep checking this site for more tips I have gathered during my 7 years of experience with the Internet.

In case you have any tip to share you can mail me.


Vijay