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CNET editors' rating:
3.5
stars
Very good
Detailed editors' rating - Average user rating: 3.5 stars out of 7 reviews
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Product summary
The
good: Highly accurate; easy to use; unique antiphishing tool detects spoofed e-mail addresses; excellent search utility for Outlook.
The
bad: Live tech support is limited to Web-based e-mail; high initial rate of false positives; less customizable than MailFrontier.
The
bottom
line: Qurb 3.0 is a very close second behind our favorite spam blocker, MailFrontier, and leagues ahead of Norton AntiSpam.
Specifications: License qty: 1 user ; License type: License ; Min Operating system: Microsoft Windows 98/ME/2000/XP ; See full specs
CNET editors' review
- Reviewed on: 03/24/2005
- Released on: 02/14/2005
We found Qurb's setup both quick and easy. Qurb installs a toolbar inside Outlook and Outlook Express and scans your e-mail as it downloads. E-mail from anyone not on your Outlook contact list or approved list gets shunted to a quarantine folder for you to review or delete. Qurb also allows you to issue a challenge e-mail to new senders, who must respond before their e-mail is delivered to you. As with MailFrontier, the challenge feature is set to be off by default. And like MailFrontier, Qurb will block e-mail created using foreign-language character sets.
Whenever you inspect the contents of the Qurb quarantine folder within Outlook, the app opens a pop-up window that displays the folder's contents with tools to redirect legit mail blocked by mistake. Passing your mouse over any entry allows you to read the first few lines of each message, helping you to separate the spam from legitimate e-mail without having to open it. Like MailFronter, Qurb automatically moves the not-spam-designated messages to your Inbox and adds those addresses to your approved list so that they won't get blocked again.
Unlike MailFrontier, Qurb offers a potential solution for e-mail spoofing. Its unique Domain Verification tool checks whether the originating IP address matches the e-mail address in the From field, so you can be confident that e-mail came from, say, eBay and not some phisher in Belarus trying to steal your credit card number. However, only a handful of companies currently publish their IP addresses, so the feature will be inactive much of the time. Perhaps as more companies comply, this tool might become an effective weapon against phishing attacks.
Qurb also includes a lightning-fast search tool for Microsoft Outlook and Outlook Express that runs rings around Microsoft's own pitiful search features. The tool rummages through all your messages, contacts, appointments, and notes. It won't decrease the spam you get, but it will save you time finding old messages.
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