Entered CNET Catalog: 08/30/2004
SKU: CNETMCAFEESPAMKILLER6
Manufacturer: McAfee
Manufacturer description
New anti-spam laws alone won't prevent credit card scams, embarrassing product pitches and other annoying messages from flooding your inbox. Your best reply is McAfee SpamKiller 2005, McAfee's improved junk email blocker now with better email filtering, automatic updating and easier-to-use setup. It's ideal for MSN/Hotmail accounts, MS Outlook and other email programs. Modern spam-blocking tools and an easy-to-use Personal Filter Editor help stop identity theft, blacklist spammers and prevent the spread of Internet viruses-which often arrive inside spam attachments-while allowing legitimate email from friends, family and co-workers to arrive safely and with fewer false positives. McAfee SpamKiller even learns from your email. The more you block, the smarter it gets in stopping unwelcome messages.User opinions
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User Rating: 
1/10
Worthless garbage
Pros: It came with the computer
Cons: It's not worth what I didn't pay for it
User Rating: 
4/10
Problem product...bad support
Pros: blocks a majority of the spam emails
Cons: blocks messages that are not spam requiring rescue
User Rating: 1/10
Danger! Danger!
Pros: It didn't kill anyone
Cons: It was less kind to most of the e-mail in in box
User Rating: 1/10
Beware of this product. It destroys email.
Pros: cheap, if you don't value your email.
Cons: Destroys email without warning
User Rating: 
8/10
Great for DSL or broadband, minimal integration with Outlook
Pros: Stops the spam! Pretty easy to use, does practically all of the work for you
Cons: Must open separate window to see and allow blocked messages
User Rating: 
3/10
McAfee SpamKiller 6 not for dial-up Internet
Pros: Kills most spam
Cons: With dial-up, SpamKiller is more annoying than spam
This is an update to my earlier review of SpamKiller. The automatic update feature of SpamKiller installed version 6.1.07 yesterday, and the problem with incessant pop-up announcements that it couldn't connect to the Internet are gone. I still have a problem with e-mail-based tech support, as I still have never heard back from them from my March 30 plea for help on this issue. (It's April 10 as I write this.) But the software is now appears to be behaving well.
User Rating: 3/10
Disappointing. Not up to McAfee's usual standard
Pros: It might work if the select criteria was corrected
Cons: Deletes good mail as well as bad mail
McAfee Spam Killer deleted good mail and left some spam mail.
Difficult to manage.
Poor response from McAfee Support.
Removed the product and used Outlook Rules Wizard to select good mail.
User Rating: 1/10
Redials ISP over and over and over....
Pros: Nice screen presentation and graphics.
Cons: Problems with redialing ISP constantly
would redial (my ISP) again and again and again, even when I was making a telephone call. I had to race it to dial my ISP myself.
The only way to stop it was to take the telephone off the hook and let the line go dead. I finally uninstalled it and cancelled the subscription.
User Rating: 
2/10
SpamKiller - Don't use it even if its FREE!
Pros: There are no pros with this tool!
Cons: It does not integrate to Outlook
