The Bottom Line
Mailbox Guard is a nice, easy to use tool to protect you against all the bad things that come via email. While it is effective against viruses it spam filters are not precise enough.
Pros
- Mailbox Guard is effective against viruses
- Easy to set up and use
Cons
- Mailbox Guard spam filters not precise enough
- Works with POP accounts only
Description
- Mailbox Guard scans multiple POP accounts for viruses, spam, and obscenity.
- Every message is ranked on a four-level scale (from green over yellow and orange to red).
- Mailbox Guard can automatically delete mail exceeding a certain level.
- You can easily browse, preview and manually delete messages right at the server with Mailbox Guard.
- Mailbox Guard supports Windows 9x/ME/NT/2000/XP.
Guide Review - Mailbox Guard 1.7 - Mail Filter
Email has two major problems: viruses and spam.Mailbox Guard tries to eliminate them both using a scanning engine set up to detect both malware, spam and mail containing obscenity. As far as bad language and (and this is great) viruses are concerned, Mailbox Guard does a pretty good job, automatically marking these messages for deletion.
Unfortunately, Mailbox Guard is not as accurate when it comes to detecting spam, which happens more or less by chance. You can easily browse, preview and (manually) delete mail directly at the server, though, all from Mailbox Guard's nice user interface.
