McAfee Spamkiller V4.0

Customer Reviews:

Kicks Most Spam Out of Your Inbox [Posted on 2003-08-02]
This program is very effective at detecting and segregating SPAM email. However, that is where its usefullness ends. The other things to "fight SPAM" like sending error messages that your email address doesn't exist and sending complaint letters to website administrators do nothing to stop or even decrease the amount of SPAM you receive. Most of the complaint letters and error messages you send come back as "undeliverable." I bought version 4.0, and since version 4.5 is now available, my version does not work at all. I am required to purchase the new version because I already used up my 30 day free trial period.

This would make good freeware [Posted on 2003-09-26]
This is the type of product that makes you scratch your head wondering whether it was worth the purchase or not. It really doesn't add much beyond the normal filtering capabilities of MS Outlook or Outlook Express. You have to invest the time to set up rules for filtering in order to make it halfway decent. There's nothing to distinguish it from the plethora of other anti-spam software out there.

McAfee recently purchased the rights to a competing anti-spam product, which many feel is a superior product (Spam Assassin). Hopefully they will use the technology to improve on Spamkiller in the future.

Spamkiller [Posted on 2003-10-08]
Spamkiller has been very unstable. I've reinstalled it over 20 times, because it stops loading after a while. Also, it no longer is importing my Outlook addresses. The tech support chat is not much help.

Never worked properly [Posted on 2003-10-14]
I wasted over eight hours trying to get this software to work properly. It frezzes up on certain spam, typically large emails. I sent an email to McAfee which was unanswered. It is MUCH easier to manually delete my own spam. I removed this software from my system and use Outlook filters only. A waste of money.

Pretty good [Posted on 2003-10-31]
Spamkiller 4 does a pretty good job of catching spam. It's easy to rescue a message if it's accidentally put in the Killed folder, and it's easy to create a new filter if a spam isn't caught so you don't get it again. There's a handy icon in the system tray that shows when there's new email. This is a stand-alone program. If you are thinking about getting SpamKiller 5 or Norton AntiSpam (which integrate with your email program) be sure to read the reviews first!

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