| Feature |
Spam Sleuth |
Benefit |
| 30-day money back guarantee |
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Provides consumer confidence when purchasing a program and
knowing that it really works. |
| Online ordering with Instant delivery |
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You can start eliminating spam now. |
| Bayesian Analysis |
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Uses statistical analysis of past e-mails to determine whether
future e-mails are spam. The program learns what spam look like, similar to how
your brain works. |
| Works with Outlook, Outlook Express, Eudora, The Bat, Pegasus,
Netscape and many, many more. |
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Compatible with almost any e-mail program so it works with your
favorite e-mail program. No need to switch e-mail programs. |
| Automatic Internet Updates |
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Keeps the program up-to-date with new data, new modules, and
new spam detecting abilities to keep your InBox clean. |
| Challenge-Response (Turing Test) |
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Be more aggressive at marking messages as spam, because
legitimate senders get a challenge request where they can go to a web site and
enter a few letters to allow their message through. |
| EMail Stamps |
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Request small payment before accepting e-mail. Works
automatically or manually. |
| Allows Friends through (whitelist) |
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Gives you the ability to override all spam checking for known
e-mail addresses of friends, relatives and co-workers. |
| Blocks known spam by e-mail address (blacklist) |
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Lets you clean up your InBox by adding frequent e-mailers to
the block list. |
| Bounce junk e-mail |
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Tricks the spammers by letting them know their e-mail was
undeliverable. They remove you from their list and you get less spam. |
| Checks against real-time IP/DNS blacklists |
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Checks e-mails to see if they were sent by known spam servers.
Eliminates spam from known sources and helps keep your InBox clean. |
| Checks for excessive recipients |
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Keep junk e-mail out by not accepting e-mail that was sent to
dozens of people. |
| Checks for missing Reply address |
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If the sender doesn't want you to reply, the reply address may
be blank possibly indicating spam. |
| Checks for valid recipient |
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Checks to make sure that the e-mail was sent to one of your
e-mail addresses and not Homeowner, Potential Customer or some other vague name.
Blocks spam that isn't sent directly to you. |
| Checks if 'From' and 'Reply To' differ |
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If these addresses differ it may indicate deception and could
be spam. |
| Compresses spam holding box |
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Stores spam compressed in the temporary holding area to use as
little disk space as possible, but still allow you to recover improperly tagged
e-mail messages. |
| Dangerous attachment removal |
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Removes attachments that can be executed and often contain
viruses. Will catch executable programs even before they have been identified as
a virus. |
| Dictionary Test |
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Detects more spam by looking at the end of subjects and
messages for fake words. |
| Drag and Drop |
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Easy to add Friends and Spammers with Drag and Drop from
Outlook and Outlook Express |
| Eliminates spam instead of just sorting it |
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Keeps your e-mail program from getting burdened and overloaded
with excessive junk e-mail |
| Encrypted profanity file |
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Hides the profanity data and data file from young innocent
eyes. |
| Expandable with additional analyzers |
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The program can grow and adapt to new criteria or new e-mail
threats. |
| Flags e-mail with dangerous attachments as spam |
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Flags e-mail with dangerous attachments, or any type of file as
spam. Keeps dangerous attachments from being accidentally run on your
computer. |
| Fuzzy logic or score based |
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The program can evaluate many criteria when deciding how to
handle spam. |
| Hobbies and Interests checking |
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Allows e-mails that contain information useful to you. Allows
e-mail that pertains to your interests. |
| HTML Volume analysis |
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Analyzes e-mail for excessive use of large fonts, bright colors
and other spam-like characteristics. |
| Mail Record check |
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Checks to make sure there is a valid IP address to reply to if
you decide to. Helps keep your InBox clean by rejecting e-mail that comes from
spammers who don't want to be contacted by e-mail. |
| Multiple account support |
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Can clean spam from multiple POP3 accounts. |
| Optional audio indicator of spam |
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Lets you know audibly when the program had detected and removed
spam. |
| POP3 support |
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Supports the industry standard POP3 accounts. |
| Profanity filter |
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Watches for profanity and flags e-mails with excessive
profanity as spam |
| Quick clicks add friends to acceptable list |
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Quickly add your friends, relatives and co-workers to the
acceptable list. |
| Quick clicks add spammer to reject list |
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Quickly add spammers to the block list so that you aren't
bothered by them again. |
| Regular Expressions |
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Allows powerful searches of complex patterns in e-mail text to
match just about anything. |
| Relay |
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Relay non-spam messages to another e-mail account for your PDA,
phone, etc. Protect your important e-mail accounts and let Spam Sleuth remove
the junk and relay the gems. |
| Removes dangerous script from HTML e-mails |
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Keeps dangerous e-mails from launching porn laden pages, or
redirecting you to another site. |
| Removes External Images |
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Keeps you from automatically sending information back to the
spammer. External Images can contain web-bugs that transmit your e-mail back to
the spammer so they know you're looking at their junk e-mail. |
| Removes HTML formatting |
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Get just the meat of the message by removing font formatting
and leaving just the text. |
| Removes HTML links |
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Keeps kids out of trouble by removing potentially hazardous
HTML links they can click on. |
| Removes Internal Images |
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Can keep potentially pornographic images from being displayed
in children's e-mail. |
| SMTP check |
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Checks to make sure there is a valid e-mail server available if
you decide to reply. Helps keep your InBox clean by rejecting e-mail that comes
from spammers who don't want to be contacted by e-mail. |
| Spam words checking |
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Keeps you from getting e-mail that contains excessive usage of
words normally contained in spam such as free, viagra, prize, flat-hose,
etc. |
| Stores spam for X days |
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Gives you a chance to get an e-mail back if it was incorrectly
tagged as spam. |
| Subject analysis |
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Looks for spam indicators and removes e-mail that has spam-like
subjects. |
| Supports Mailing Lists |
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Lets you add your favorite mailing lists to allow them to reach
your InBox. |
| Supports wildcards blocking messages by e-mail address |
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Quickly add an entire company to the block list. |
| Wildcards for allowing friends |
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Eliminates the need to enter every e-mail address for
co-workers. Just add *@mycompany.com to allow all e-mail from
mycompany.com. |