Singles clubs. Casinos. Cheap loans. Low-cost Viagra. Yes, you've just wasted half an hour trawling through the junk mail. SpamWeed can help you quickly regain control of your inbox, using a variety of techniques to block spam, while ensuring legitimate emails arrive.
Some spam blockers are based on a complicated mass of rules and keywords filters, making them a nightmare to maintain. SpamWeed takes a different approach, as it uses statistics to pick out the junk.
This approach makes the program simple to use, but initially it will still make mistakes. That needn't be a disaster (as misidentified emails can be removed), however a little time spent training SpamWeed will help improve its accuracy later.
1. Identifying spam SpamWeed will detect and block most of your junk mail immediately, but some will still get through. Fortunately the program is capable of learning from its mistakes, so performance will improve all the time. If you spot any spam in your inbox, then double-click the SpamWeed system tray icon, and click "Legitimate Mail". Hold down [Ctrl] while you select all the offending messages, then right-click on them and choose 'Send to Junk Mail' to clear them.
2. Rescuing messages On other occasions, emails from friends or colleagues might be identified as spam. Right-click any misidentified emails, and select 'Send to Legitimate Email' to restore them. Collect messages from your email client again, and it'll pick them up. Alternatively, right-click an email and choose 'Add Sender to White List', and future messages from that person will always get through, regardless of their content.
3. Pick your preferences Click view | Options to see SpamWeed's preferences. By default the program is set to delete emails identified as spam after seven days. We think that's too short, especially if you've been on holidays for a while. Increase it to the maximum of 14, for safety reasons.
The program can also treat messages containing double-byte characters as spam. Unless you regularly get emails in languages that use these character sets (Korean or Japanese, say), enable this option and see if it helps stem the ever-increasing tide.
About Shuttle Technologies & SpamWeed
Shuttle Technologies (previously Lanfei), a leading anti-spam vendor located in Shanghai, china, has been dedicated to the fight against email spam since early 2002. It's flagship product: SpamWeed Anti-Spam Software, uses a combination of URL rules, Bayesian statistics and other- state-of-the-art anti-spam techniques to identify spam and quarantine email viruses. The product can block over 90% spam out-of-the-box and with its learning engine in place, it can achieve close to 100% filtering accuracy after about one-week's training. The product is also feature-rich and easy-to-use. For more information, please visit: www.spamweed.com.
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