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Spam Fighter – what works best? SpamFighter, of course!!

Written by Jess
Tuesday, 19 April 2011 21:16
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In previous weeks we recommended our favorite choice for antivirus/antimalware.  That was ESET’s NOD32, available at www.eset.com.

We’re going to step out once again here and recommend our favorite SPAM fighting software and that’s SpamFighter.  Available at www.spamfighter.com.

We’ve tested other software and have consistently found that SpamFighter does just what its name says it does.  It fights spam.  We have numerous users that receive hundreds of emails each day and they previously had to weed through all the junk to get to the actual important stuff.  SpamFighter has made their lives much easier.  Filtering out  400+ spams down to the 20 that were real emails.

They have a free version, which works quite well.  But we recommend the paid version (costs $29/year) because of the excellent value it provides.  If your time is more valuable than 8 cents per day, this is a no brainer.

If you’re on a business network with an email server, SpamFighter will also stop spam from reaching your mobile phone.

 

The cost of spam!

Written by admin
Tuesday, 28 September 2010 20:42
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How much does spam cost?

Considering that 94% of all email sent is spam, it can cost quite a bit in lost productivity.  Estimates are about $25 billion per year and climbing.  At a minimum, people spend between 1-2 full work days each year cutting through spam.

• If it makes it to the inbox, you have to delete it.
• If it gets filtered but it wasn’t supposed to, you have to un-delete it.
• And after you’re done with all that, you have to remember what you were doing in the first place.

That doesn’t even count the viruses and malicious links that could be included.  Eeeeww, there are BUGS in my spam???

The best free spam filter we’ve found so far is SpamFighter, available at www.spamfighter.com.  They have a paid version also that costs as little as 6 cents a day.