The Bottom Line
Spam OFF is a comprehensive spam and virus filtering solution that combines multiple strong methods of junk mail detection. Unfortunately, they are not always accurate, and false positives do occur.
Spam OFF is no longer available.
Spam OFF is no longer available.
Pros
- Spam OFF uses multiple methods to detect spam
- Continuous spam signature updates
- Filters worms and viruses, too
Cons
- Spam OFF filters not precise, can't be trained
- Works only with POP accounts
Description
- Spam OFF filters POP accounts for spam and viruses.
- Working as a POP proxy, Spam OFF can be used with any email client and account.
- Spam OFF can automatically configure Outlook, Outlook Express, IncrediMail, Eudora and The Bat!.
- Spam OFF combines a number of tactics to detect and label or quarantine junk mail.
- Daily updated spam signatures let Spam OFF detect known spam immediately.
- Blackhole lists (of known spammers) and flexible local filters (including regexps) catch more.
- Finally, Spam OFF's "Intelligent Text Analysis" computes spam statistics for messages.
- Spam OFF also filters out viruses, worms and potentially malicious scripts.
- Spam OFF supports Windows 9x/ME/NT/2000/3/XP.
Guide Review - Spam OFF 1.10 - Spam Filter
If you think that one method to spot spam can't be enough, Spam OFF may be for you.
Spam OFF employs four capable tactics. First, known spam (and thanks to a wide network of spam-collecting accounts Spam OFF knows about a lot of spam) is immediately sorted out. Then an "Intelligent Text Analyzer" calculates the probability of a message being spam. Finally, DNS blacklists and content filters do the rest.
Unfortunately, the result is not always perfect and false positives have to be corrected by tweaking settings and whitelisting senders. It's a pity, too, that there's no way to teach the ITA (whatever it does) to re-evaluate its statistics since it was what produced the most errors in my tests. Support for IMAP accounts would be nice, too.
