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Sunbelt iHateSpam 4
Manufacturer: Sunbelt Software
Product Group: Software
Studio: Sunbelt Software
ISBN: B0000DCGD7
Brand: Sunbelt Software
EAN: 0855717000146
UPC: 855717000146
CD-ROM
Release Date: 2004-03-04
SKU: 07090350
Condition: Like New Very Good
Comments: Like new CD-Rom: unscratched and includes Registration Key and no shrink wrap over original keepsake case in very good condition.
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Editorial Reviews
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Product Description
iHateSpam 4.0 helps you eliminate annoying spam, reduce irritating junk emails quickly and easily! Does not support AOL or Mac systems
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Customer Reviews
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Slow product. Awful support.
Rating  (1)
Date: 2005-08-05
4 out of 4 customers found this reveiw helpful
I have been using this product for 3 years. To obtain full functionality I also purchased the full edition of Outlook to use along with I Hate Spam.
At first I Hate Spam was moderately effective at filtering spam. It did catch 90% of the spam and almost never incorrectly classified a legitimate email as spam.
However it was also very slow. It took 5 minutes to process 75 incoming emails each morning, and dealing with the 10% of spam missed was extremely inefficient - manually designating a single email as spam would cause Outlook to lock up an agonizing 20 seconds. Designating multiple emails as spam was even more inefficient, and there were anoying limits on how many emails I could designate as spam in a single click.
Customer support was unresponsive to complaints about this product.
After the one year support period for this product elapsed, the performance recognizing spam dropped from adequate (90%) to pathetic (2%). When I purchased renewed support for the product the performance restored to adequate, and then again became pathetic after the expiration of the support window. I strongly suspect that there is a built-in expiration feature that causes this degredation in performance exactly after a year of use.
While I would have been happy to pay for this product as a subscription service, (particularly if it were better supported and not quite so slow), I think it is unethical for the publisher to market it as they do without disclosing the essentially MANDATORY support fees.
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Lousy software, lousy service
Rating (1)
Date: 2005-05-12
I bought this software and wish I hadn't. None of the tabs work and my friends, colleagues go to delete. I can't move them back using "not spam" or "add friend" buttons. Have written four emails to the company for help and received no replies.
Avoid this one
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Excellent Program
Rating  (4)
Date: 2004-12-16
1 out of 2 customers found this reveiw helpful
This program is easy to install, works very well, and rapidly cleans out "in-box" junk. I receive 60-70 pieces of spam per day, and it processes them in approximately 20 seconds. The filtering accuracy rate is around 95%. Integrates very nicely with XP-Outlook-Norton, and is much more effective than Outlook 2003 as a stand alone.
The only issue I have encountered is the program is not designed to support multiple users signed on simultaneously. In XP this results in a blinking cursor. The cure is to log off when switching users. Support figuring out this "undocumented feature" was great.
Have recommended and this to family of friends, and is a welcome tool in the anti-spam crusade.
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Spam?? What Spam??
Rating  (5)
Date: 2004-06-12
1 out of 3 customers found this reveiw helpful
Since I started using this product I have no more spam and it never ever catches my good email. I get 300+ spam messages a day and it catches all of them. Awesome product, and it's dirt cheap!
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Best Outlook anti-spam tool out there!
Rating (5)
Date: 2004-06-12
4 out of 5 customers found this reveiw helpful
iHateSpam not only blocks the lion's share of spam I receive, it also allows me to send a (convincing but fake) bounce message and/or report spam abuse to various authorities. iHateSpam also allows the user to easily tag a sender/domain as a friend or enemy and black/whitelist them accordingly. The program is easy to install and configure out of the box, and allows for extensive tweaking to make it work the way you want it to. As a network sysadmin who is very conservative about introducing new software in a corporate environment, I consider iHateSpam to be the most stable, user-accessible and empowering anti-spam software currently available, and have recommended it for corporate use without hesitation.
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