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SpamWeed 2.1 -Review By About.com

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Guide Rating:**** (Out of five stars)

The Bottom Line

SpamWeed is a simple and easy to use, but effective and competent anti-spam tool using statistics-based filtering. It's a pity that SpamWeed supports POP and Hotmail accounts only.

Pros:

  • SpamWeed finds lots of spam
  • Using statistics-based (Bayesian) filters, SpamWeed is solidly precise
  • SpamWeed is simple and easy to use

    • Cons:

  • SpamWeed supports POP and Hotmail accounts only
  • Coming pre-trained, SpamWeed may produce false positives initially

    • Description

  • SpamWeed filters multiple POP and MSN Hotmail email accounts for spam.
  • SpamWeed works as a POP proxy server between email client and incoming mail server.
  • Spam detected by SpamWeed is quarantined and automatically deleted after a certain period of time.
  • Quarantined spam can be viewed and recovered easily. Recovering trains the statistics-based filter.
  • SpamWeed comes pre-trained with a mail/spam corpus so it detects spam out of the box.
  • Additionally, SpamWeed can use automatic and custom white and black lists and keyword filters.
  • SpamWeed keeps a backup copy of its statistics database ready for recovery.
  • By optionally disabling remote images in emails SpamWeed can help you avoid web bugs.
  • SpamWeed supports Windows 9x/ME/NT/2000/XP.

    • Guide Review - SpamWeed 2.1

    A good anti-spam tool is simple, and it gets rid of all the spam while producing no false positives. SpamWeed is a pretty good anti-spam tool. It is not particularly pretty, but simple and really easy to use. Using statistics-based filtering, SpamWeed can achieve a high detection rate. Unlike other Bayesian filters, SpamWeed comes pretrained. It will detect spam out of the box, but there's also the chance SpamWeed may produce false positives initially. So it still takes some training to minimize false positives. It's a pity that SpamWeed only works with POP accounts, and it's not clear whether the system of black and white lists of senders is necessary given the adaptive nature of Bayesian filters (it does enable faster results, though).


    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 Filter, uses a combination of URL rules, Bayesian statistics and other- state-of-the-art anti spam techniques to block spam and quarantine email viruses. The spam blocker can stop 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.