The Bottom Line
Spamkeys monitors incoming and outgoing mail for spam, sensitive information and dangerous code. Unfortunately, the filtering methods are too simple for spam and sometimes too strict for attachments. Spamkeys is no longer available.
Pros
- Spamkeys monitors all Internet and email traffic
- Can erase sensitive info from outgoing emails
- Can diffuse potentially dangerous data
Cons
- SpamKeys has inefficient, simple content filters
- Doesn't support IMAP accounts
- Security measures can be overzealous
Description
- Spamkeys enhances email privacy and security while fighting spam and obscene messages.
- Spamkeys operates on the transport level and can't be turned off easily.
- Content-based filters look for spam and obscene language in email messages.
- Lets you block mail from and to certain senders or domains.
- Spamkeys can look for and remove sensitive information in outgoing messages.
- Diffuses potentially dangerous code and attachments so it is displayed as plain text.
- Spamkeys keeps an independent and encrypted history of all Internet activity.
- Works with POP and Web-based email accounts.
- Spamkeys supports Windows 9x/ME/NT/2000/XP.
Guide Review - Spamkeys 6.0 - Spam Filter
Most anti-spam tools work on the application level. This often means using another program in addition to your email client to check — and filter — mail.
Spamkeys work on the transportation level. It monitors incoming and outgoing mail for a broad approach to email security, privacy and spam protection. Spamkeys can look for and dismantle malicious attachments and HTML code, it can prevent sensitive information from being sent in plain text email, and it can filter out spam and obscenity — or at least it tries.
Unfortunately, Spamkeys' filters amount to simple content filters and sender blocking, not precise enough to really get rid of spam. And while Spamkeys supports Web-based email to some extent, it doesn't work with IMAP.
