IHateSpam is produced by Sunbelt Software and is another tool used to stop spam expanding. This company produces a lot of softwares but for this review we tested latest version of iHateSpam. In the past we tested iHateSpam but this new version called 5.0 is totally changed.
A bad thing is that version is available just for Outlook. Anyway, in the near future Sunbelt Software will launch new versions compatible with other email clients like: Thunderbird, Microsoft Outlook Express and Microsoft Vista’s Windows Email system.
Latest version of iHateSpam can be downloaded from producer’s site or directly from our page and used for free about 30 days, in trial period. After this time, the software must be purchased from Sunbelt Software website.
Installation of iHateSpam is simple and easy to perform by an beginner computer user. After installation the software will be integrated directly in the Outlook email client. You have few options to setup in the correct way this antispam.
This version of IHateSpam uses spam filtering technologies provided by Cloudmark. This is another antispam solution used for Microsoft Outlook email client. The menu interface is relative simple and integration with Outlook is automatically.
We tested this antispam for this review about three weeks to see which the real detection effectiveness of this soft is. The large community of users offers good opportunity for producers to obtain data from community to determine which emails are spams and which email list must be blacklisted. This thing is happens more in theory because in fact this software is still at the distance comparing with our top rated antispam solutions.
We like the system called “fingerprint” used to mark unsolicited emails. After marking the email is deleted and a report with the spammer address is sent to the database. This email will be sent to all the users and the email will be automatically marked as blacklisted when the email is received. Anyway, the detection effectiveness is not at high level and you may have problems with clean emails which are automatically moved into spam folder.
iHateSpam not uses excessively the computer resources and provides a good level of spam detection. We hope that software will be improved by Sunbelt team in the next versions to offer more detection effectiveness of spamming at the same price.
