Thursday, 1 May 2008

1.5.08

Today I looked at 2 spam fiters, SPAMfighter: Spam Filter Outlook/Outlook Express 6.2.41 and Spam Bully for Outlook Express 4.1.0.12.

SPAMfighter:Spam Filter Outlook/Outlook Express 6.2.41 is downloadable from download.com. It got an average user rating of 4 and a half stars. It is free to try for 30 days but is $29 to buy. This program blocks spam and phishing e-mails. SPAMfighter has almost 5 million users, when several of them report spam from the same e-mail address, the e-mail address is automatically blocked for all users.

Spam Bully for Outlook Express 4.1.0.12 is also downloadable from download.com. It got an average user rating of 3 stars. It is free to try for 14 days, but costs $29.95. Spam Bully allows you to block and allow e-mail addresses, IP addresses, and words or phrases. And also but country and language. It can also report spammers to their hosts.
It can forward good e-mails to your mobile phone, and automatically delete spam as it downloads.


I also looked at 2 proxy servers, CC Proxy Server 6.5 and Proxy+ 3.0.

CC Proxy Server 6.5 can be downloaded from download.com. It received an average user rating of 4 stars. It is free to try (3 user trial) and is $69 to buy. It supports dial-up, ISDN, DSL, and DDN connections, and helps you to build a proxy server. It can also act as HTTP/FTP/SOCKS/mail/news/telnet proxy servers as well. It has content and web filtering and bandwidth control.

Proxy+ 3.0 can also be downloaded from download.com. It received an average user rating of 4 stars. And it is completely free to use for 3 users. It has a a full SMTP mail server, proxy cascading by ICP protocol, and Socks server support for ICQ.

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