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Symantec-s Norton AntiSpam 2005 filters out unwanted email to make your online communications safer and more enjoyable. Automatic identification of spam makes it easy to block messages you don-t want, without interfering with your legitimate email. Norton AntiSpam can also flag messages that have offensive content and block intrusive online ads.
Key Features
- NEW! Filters email coming to Yahoo! email accounts.
- NEW! Reduces your exposure to fraudulent email.
- NEW! Language-based filtering lets you block messages written in specific languages.
- NEW! Automatically synchronises its Allowed List with your Microsoft Outlook, Microsoft Outlook Express, or Eudora address book.
- Smart filtering engine learns what you consider legitimate mail by analysing your outgoing messages.
- Ad blocking speeds Web page download times and reduces screen clutter by eliminating pop-up, pop-under, and banner ads.
- Works with standard POP3 email programs, and automatically adds spam-fighting buttons to the toolbars of Microsoft Outlook, Microsoft Outlook Express, and Eudora.
- Enables Outlook users to filter junk mail from Hotmail and MSN Mail accounts.
- Blocked List lets you filter out messages from specific email addresses or entire Internet domains.
- LiveUpdate ® automatically checks for new protection updates when you-re online.*
* Twelve months of protection updates included with purchase of Norton AntiSpam 2005; annual subscriptions available for subsequent updates.
System Requirements
Windows XP Home Edition/Professional/Tablet PC/Media Center
- 300MHz processor or higher
- 128 MB of RAM
Windows 2000 Professional (SP1 required)
- 133MHz processor or higher
- 64 MB of RAM
Windows Me/98/98SE
- 155MHz processor or higher
- 32 MB of RAM
REQUIRED FOR ALL INSTALLATIONS
- 80 MB of available hard disk space
- DVD or CD-ROM drive
- Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.5 browser or later
Email scanning supported for Yahoo! Mail, Yahoo! Mail Plus, and standard POP3 and SMTP-compatible email clients.
Product reviews...
Review by: kiwireviewer-01
Dated: 18th of January, 2005
Having tried other Antispam software before with limited success I decided to give this latest offering from the team at Symantec a whirl and see how it performs.
Now normally to test this I would load this on a PC and then subscribe to as much spam as I could get. But lately i've been getting enough spam without signing up for more so I thought i'd let it go with my normal load of junk e-mail. One thing that especially impressed me was the option of rejecting e-mail by language. This caught my attention as lately i've been getting on average about 20 e-mails a week from random e-mail accounts all in an asian language.
So how did it go? Well after installing and doing the Liveupdates it was blocking appoximately 90-95% of my junk e-mail, not bad considering I hadn't even trained it yet.
So overall well worth buying to stop all those annoying e-mails that are trying to belittle all those men out there.
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