The Bottom Line
Anti-Spam EmailGuard is a relatively competent, easy to use and feature-rich anti-spam tool. It does produce some false positives out of the box, though.
Pros
- Anti-Spam EmailGuard detects spam precisely
- You can complain about spam easily
- Anti-Spam EmailGuard learns as you classify spam
Cons
- Correcting Anti-Spam EmailGuard decisions is a bit slow
- Anti-Spam EmailGuard requires Outlook or Outlook Express
- Some false positives out of the box
Description
- Anti-Spam EmailGuard is an anti-spam plug-in for Outlook and Outlook Express.
- Detected spam is moved to a special Quarantine folder automatically.
- Anti-Spam EmailGuard filter threshold can be configured. Can block certain character sets.
- Includes lists of buddies and "enemies", imports addresses from contacts and Sent Items easily.
- Anti-Spam EmailGuard learns as you classify spam, adapting to the type of spam and good mail you get.
- Mail sent through open relays, prominent sources of spam, is automatically classified as junk.
- Anti-Spam EmailGuard lets you report a spammer to their ISP easily with the click of a button.
- Anti-Spam EmailGuard lets you add simple keyword filters, can block mail from certain top-level domains.
- By detecting certain phishing attempts Anti-Spam EmailGuard helps you avoid online fraud.
- Anti-Spam EmailGuard supports Windows 98/ME/NT/2000/XP and Outlook 2000/2/3 or Outlook Express 5/6.
Guide Review - Anti-Spam EmailGuard 2005 4.1.1 - Spam Filter
Anti-Spam EmailGuard collects a number of great anti-spam tool aspects. It is easy to use, scanning your Outlook or Outlook Express Inbox automatically and any other folder manually at the click of a toolbar icon.
While the Bayesian spam filter in Anti-Spam EmailGuard is not trained perfectly out of the box (no training might have been better), it learns as you correct the false positives and the spam that made it to your Inbox. In addition, you can use Anti-Spam EmailGuard's black and white lists of senders and set up simple keyword filters.
Warning about known phishing attempts, Anti-Spam EmailGuard helps you steer clear of email fraud as well.
Another nice touch is how easy Anti-Spam EmailGuard makes it to complain about spam to the spammer's ISP. Unfortunately, the message can't be controlled or edited before delivery, though.
