Entered CNET Catalog: 08/21/2003
SKU: MSK50E001RAA
Manufacturer: McAfee
Manufacturer description
With fraudulent, inappropriate and offensive emails being delivered with escalating frequency to adults, children and businesses, email users require a comprehensive solution to protect them from the annoyance and dangers of "spam". McAfee SpamKiller quickly and easily helps you control spam from polluting your Inbox. Powered by advanced rule-based and list-based filtering technologies, SpamKiller enables users to both protect their Inboxes from spam and fight back against the source of the problem - email spammers. Every time you send your email address out into the world, you are exposing yourself and your business to the deluge of spam email. To make the problem worse, email lists are also sold and resold within spammer networks, greatly increasing the volume of spam sent to a user's email address. McAfee SpamKiller provides an easy-to use, effective anti-spam solution for both consumers and businesses. With a multitude of anti-spam tools and automatic complaint mechanisms, SpamKiller offers email users an unprecedented level of security and control. SpamKiller installs with a database of known spammers. Additionally, its comprehensive preset rule-based filters scan the sender's address, subject line, body text, message header and country of origin in determining if an email is legitimate mail or spam. SpamKiller's filter wizard presents a simple, step-by-step method for users to create new spam filters based on spam messages that have been received. Users simply choose the part of the message on which to filter and SpamKiller automatically develops the filter. SpamKiller gives email users the ability to report spammers to the proper authorities. SpamKiller can automatically determine the origin of a spam email and send a formal complaint to the abuse desk of the spammer's ISP. SpamKiller also enables users to automatically send a 'bounced email' message back to spammers, which can help to effectively remove their address from email lists.User opinions
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User Rating: 
5/10
The only spam program that works
Pros: It has helped to identify almost 95% of the spam i have been getting, this is more than i can say for nortons or any other program. I have 5 email accounts, my wife has 2 its been blocking our spam pretty good. Hey it even works on my Hotmail account bett
Cons: If you are a home user of MS Outlook and you only have POP3 and Not Mapi acounts the intigrated toolbar does not even show up. The best solution I have found is to open SpamKiller first and review mail before opeing Outlook. I only wished that it worked a
User Rating: 
10/10
Works Great. Worth the buy. Some don't know what they're talking about.
Pros: Filters Spam, Locks Pop-ups nicely, Allow you to pre-view all blocked/accepted e-mail in an easy to use interface, and has the ability to setup POP, IMAP, and hotmail accounts.
Cons: I'd have to think about it.
User Rating: 5/10
Only bring you trobule
Pros: Good Looking
Cons: This is the worst Version I ever see in my life, the tool-bar won't even add to Outlook 2003. And when I turn to its live tech support chat, the "frendly" tech support put me on-hold for 20 mins, and when he finally come, it turn out. The only suggestion
User Rating: 
2/10
a joke
Pros: hmmm, pretty graphics?
Cons: complicated set up for email (compared to other programs), unstable, after weeks of use made more mistakes identifying spam than pc cillin did right out of the box. Also, each peice (spam, virus, privacy, firewall) must be bought seperately.
User Rating: 
3/10
Skip it.
Pros: Nice interface, got a good price($5 after rebates) from Office Depot. Offers alot of features.
Cons: This package gave me alot of problems on install, had to uninstall and reinstall it a few times to finally get it working. The manual is very poorly written, and although it's promoted as working with Outlook, it only works with Outlook Express, not the
User Rating: 3/10
seems to work in the beginning, but has fatal flaws
Pros:
Cons: The problem is basic: Sure, you can faithfully keep adding to your list of spammers to be killed.....but after using Spamkiller for a while, I noticed that I was still getting about the same number of SPAM's after installing SpamKiller as I was before.
User Rating: 2/10
Not for home user
Pros: Stops most spam. Interface good, unless ...
Cons: Doesn't integrate with Outlook 2000 as promised so desired interface doesn't exit; unless you happen to have a MS Exchange server ... False advertising. Chat service is too slow to tolerate and email service is of limited help since they don't answer t
User Rating: 
1/10
Filters a little Spam, but too buggy and too many limitations.
Pros: Filters some Spam.
Cons: Misses some Spam, but even worse, it sets up an internal server to receive and process incoming mail that stopped twice in two days and was total hell to restart, making me fear I wouldn't get any mail. Also, won't support SSL e-mail accts. Also, my P.C
User Rating: 1/10
Makes You wonder???
Pros: None, unfortunately
Cons: McAfee, what happened??? First, this software does not work well with Outlook by way of Office XP. I have yet to get consistent "accepted emails" and "blocked emails" and often times when it says it is "protecting" my computer, I think it isn't, because i
User Rating: 1/10
I have always had great experiences with McAfee software ? well up until this point. First, this sof
Pros: None! Ideally, if it worked, it would look like and work like a real nice system.
Cons: Many! ... see summary
User Rating: 3/10
filters half of spam at best
Pros: easy integration into outlook for nmost users
Cons: Firstly this filter fails to deal properly with base64 spam which is accounting for an ever increasing proportion of spam. It includes reply and error messages to send to spammers, which will do the opposite of taking you off their lists, they just recon
User Rating: 3/10
Worst SpamKiller version YET!
Pros: Nice interface and decent filtering once you have your filters set up
Cons: Many! 1. Lousy support from McAfee for the product. 8+ hour wait for online chat help (that was of no help after all was said and done) and even after getting phone help problems with the software still existed. 2. Slows down CPU (90-100% usage after u
User Rating: 2/10
If it worked it'd be great.
Pros: Good filtering, nice interface with integrated buttons for Outlook Express.
Cons: It is fraught with bugs. It does not interface with Outlook if you are using POP3 only MAPI. It is very unstable,I've been unable to keep it working correctly longer than 15 minutes at a stretch. Tech support is abysmal. I have given it three solid days o
User Rating: 1/10
Version 5 is unstable
Pros: None in version 5. Previous versions were fantastic.
Cons: Version 5 is unstable and buggy and does not integrate with Outlook as advertised except in specific configurations. See my post on McAfee's support forum at http://forums.mcafeehelp.com/ viewtopic.php?p=98334#98334
User Rating: 1/10
VirusScan thinks SpamKiller is a virus!
Pros: Looks nice, decent instructions on how to use with your EMAIL.
Cons: VirusScan tries to delete part of it, then SpamKiller repairs. This vicious cycle causes serious degredation in machine performance. Don't know how this slipped past McAfee QA people. Don't waste your money on this.
User Rating: 
6/10
Kills spam, but is inefficient
Pros: kills spam, goo interface,
Cons: doesn't integrate with outlook pop3 accounts, garbage support
User Rating: 6/10
Flawed, but best user friendly option yet
Pros: Good POP filtering Integrates nicely with Outlook Express Easy to use Automatically updated Good interface Advanced built in filters Custom filters
Cons: Bad (only partially effective) MSN/Hotmail filtering Not always stable with Hotmail
User Rating: 2/10
A huge step backwards, compared to the previous version
Pros: SpamAssassin technology included.
Cons: Numerous bugs. User interface is all but useless.
User Rating: 1/10
Stay away - Stay far away
Pros: Nice interface. Proven Spam filtering capabilities
Cons: Buggy, Difficult setup, slows performance, product support is the worst I've ever seen Product installs it's own mail server on your system so it can check your mail before it reaches your client. You have to set your client to connect to Spamkiller to r
User Rating: 
7/10
Very helpful--it does the job.
Pros: Ease of use, reliabiltiy. Extra features, possibility to send three types of error reports to spam sources.
Cons: Impossibility to remove or modify filters--only filter additions are possible.
User Rating: 3/10
Outlook Users Beware
Pros: Neat interface. Seems to integrate easily, however, only with Outlook Express.
Cons: If you are a home user/home business user running Outlook 2000/2002/XP as your email client, beware. Spamkiller requires that you have a MAPI email account to integrate its features into Outlook. MAPI requires you have an exchange server, which most hom
User Rating: 3/10
Does only a fair job at best
Pros: Filters spam
Cons: Filters some good mail and only a fair job of real spam mail.
