McAfee SpamKiller 6.0

SpamKiller will make copies of all automatically filtered mails. It allows you to filter any part of a message, including the text, headers, and country codes. The friends list allows desired e-mail to reach you.

The filter wizard makes it easy to add your own filters, and you can download online updates. SpamKiller also allows you to automatically send complaints and error messages to spammers. It handles any number of MSN/Hotmail, POP3 and MAPI accounts.

SpamKiller can block all messages from senders not on your friends list. SpamKiller supports Microsoft Network e-mail and extended MAPI.

Major Features:

1. Filtering advanced filtering options provide new filtering techniques,
2. including support for meta-character filtering and junk text identification.
3. Phishing AntiPhishing browser plug-in via an Internet Explorer toolbar
4. Easily identifies and blocks potential phishing Web sites.
5. Microsoft Outlook and Outlook Express integration toolbar provides a folder within your mail client to block spam directly.
6. Installation streamlined setup and configuration. Automatic account detection assures smooth setup, configuration, and integration with existing e-mail accounts.
7. Updates auto-updates run silently in the background, always vigilant to minimize your exposure to emerging spam threats.
8. Interface intuitive user interface for keeping your computer free of spam.
9. Support free live instant messaging and e-mail technical support for easy, prompt, and live customer service.
10. Spam message processing by default, spam messages are tagged as [SPAM] and placed in the SpamKiller folder in Outlook and Outlook Express, or your Inbox. Tagged messages also appear on the Accepted E-mail page.

Enhancements:

1. Client-server Architecture
2. McAfee SpamKiller introduces a new underlying client-server architecture that improves the product in three key areas:
   • Usability
   • • Acting as the mail-handling agent on an end user’s system, SpamKiller automatically filters out spam email in the background without forcing the user to change anything about how they interact with their email.
   • Compatibility
   • • SpamKiller supports virtually any email client. Its architecture also allows users to use their favorite email client to read and filter multiple email protocols, including POP3, MAPI and MSN Hotmail.
   • Speed
   • • SpamKiller filters and processes mail at a blistering pace – ensuring that users get only the mail they want, when they want it.
3. General Filtering Engine Enhancements:
   • Advanced probability-based filtering
   • Priority-based simple and compound rule matching
   • Spam signature filtering
   • Personal filters, blacklists and friends lists
   • Character set filtering
   • Dictionary Attack filter
   • Adaptive Filtering
   • One-Click Block
   • Microsoft Outlook integration
   • • Microsoft Outlook users will be able to access core SpamKiller features from directly within Micrisoft Outlook Express 6.0, Micrisoft Outlook 98, Micrisoft Outlook 2000 and Micrisoft Outlook XP. Users will be able to block spam, add people to their Friends List and view their quarantined email by clicking on buttons integrated directly into the tool bar.
   • Scam filters
   • • SpamKiller’s priority-based engine has the ability to help block known hoaxes and potentially fraudulent emails. As it is common for people to forward virus hoaxes and scams to friends, family and colleagues, SpamKiller’s Scam Filters will detect and block a malicious spam email even if it comes from someone on the user’s friend list.
   • Personal Filter Editor
   • • Power users will be able to create, edit and track the performance of filters that they create using SpamKiller’s powerful filter editor. Capable of handling multiple filtering conditions on a wide assortment of characteristics such as message content, character set, spam probability, etc., filters can be as complex and powerful as the user wishes. Furthermore, users have access to advanced options such as filter expiration and prioritization.
   • Multi-user support
   • • Microsoft Windows 2000 and XP users running a multi-user environment will be able to take advantage of SpamKiller’s multi-user support.
     • SpamKiller can automatically set up multiple users that correspond to the users set up in the operating system. This feature helps parents protect their children from inappropriate content and also ensures that SpamKiller’s advanced learning makes filtering decisions based specifically upon a user’s individual email attributes and preferences.
   • Redesigned User Interface
   • • Offering a graphical summary view with categorization, simplified message quarantine and Microsoft Outlook integration, SpamKillers user interface has been significantly redesigned.
   • Multiple Routing Options
   • • For more advanced users, SpamKiller offers two routing options for how it handles spam. In addition to sending spam to the SpamKiller blocked mail folder, users also have the choice to simply tag spam messages in their email client. As such, using a rule in the email client, they can simply move email messages that SpamKiller tags as spam to a specified junk mail folder on virtually any POP3 email client.

Requirements:

1. Personal computer with Pentium-compatible processor
   • Windows 98, 2000: 133 MHz or higher
   • Windows Me: 150 MHz or higher
   • Windows XP (Home and Pro): 300 MHz or higher
2. RAM
   • Windows 98, Me, 2000: 64 MB
   • Windows XP (Home and Pro): 128 MB
   • 35 MB hard disk space
   • Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.5 or later
3. Required for toolbar plug-in
   • Outlook Express 6.0 or later
   • Outlook 98, 2000, 2003, or XP
   • Internet Explorer 6.0 or later
   • Supported e-mail programs:
   • POP3 (Outlook Express, , , Netscape)
   • MAPI ()
   • Web (MSN/Hotmail, or e-mail account with POP3 access)