The Bottom Line
- SurfSecret SpamDrop is easy to use
- Very few to no false positives
- SpamDrop integrates well with Outlook
- SurfSecret SpamDrop (still?) has a relatively meager spam detection rate
- You can't manually clean an Outlook folder with SpamDrop
- It's not clear if or what safeguards are in place to prevent abuse
Description
- SurfSecret SpamDrop is a junk mail filtering plug-in for Outlook.
- Spam detected by SpamDrop is placed in a special folder automatically.
- SurfSecret SpamDrop uses the distributed network of users to spot spam (via fingerprints).
- If you mark a message spam spam, your "vote" is recorded, counted and shared at SpamDrop servers.
- Additionally, SurfSecret SpamDrop lets you use black and white lists for easy sender control.
- SurfSecret SpamDrop supports Windows 98/ME/NT/2000/3/XP and Outlook 2000/2/3.
Guide Review - SurfSecret SpamDrop 1.1.10 - Outlook Spam Filtering Add-On
Unfortunately, this may have to do with SpamDrop's less than stellar performance when it comes to detecting the junk. Lots and lots of it made it to my Outlook Inbox. Fortunately, though, SpamDrop makes it very easy to classify any email. This classification is shared with other SpamDrop users, and if enough people report a certain (kind of) junk email, it will be found to be spam automatically by SpamDrop.
It is not clear, however, how this system is protected from abuse — possibly by spammers rendering SpamDrop useless by mass-submitting newsletters that other users do want to receive. At least then there's the white list, easy to use like all of SpamDrop, as a possible rescue.
All in all, if enough people use SurfSecret SpamDrop responsibly, it might become a very useful and simple anti-junk solution for Outlook.
