The Internet medium makes from email a weapon used by spammers to promote different products without users accept. These emails can be detected with high level antispam software. One of these anti spam programs is called SPAMfighter. We tested for this review SPAMfighter Standard Edition. This version is free for personal use, so you can use this antispam software without pay money.
Anyway, this version is impressive and it has good results, better than many paid antispam applications. SPAMfighter Standard Edition can be downloaded for free from producer website or directly from our page.
Installation process of SPAMfighter is simple and fast because the installer is lightweight and the entire package is very easy to run. The process can be performed by a beginner computer user because the settings are minimal and with just about few clicks SPAMfighter Standard Edition is installed and protects you against unsolicited emails.
You may choose Professional version of SPAMfighter called Pro. This version of SPAMfighter it has no ads in the footer and unlimited white list / blacklist websites and email addresses. The Standard Version instead it has a limit of 100 emails and websites. Anyway, this is a good thing for an average home user because this limit of Standard Edition of SPAMfighter it covers almost all the home users necessities. Another good thing is that Standard Version will run with Pro settings in trial period of 30 days. After this period the software will transform in Standard Free Version of SPAMfighter.
SPAMfighter supports a lot of email clients like Outlook (all versions launched after 2000) and Windows Vista Mail system. After installation the software it filters all the incoming emails. The program will create automatically a folder used just for spam messages. The folder is called SPAMfighter and in it you’ll find all unsolicited emails delivered to your address. Another feature of SPAMfighter is a toolbar which let the user to mark simple the email as friend or spammer.
The software uses a good algorithm of filtering. If you mark an email to be spammer, this information will be present in short time to all the users, in this way the spammer address will be blocked at global level.
Anyway, in our tests SPAMfighter it has a good detection effectiveness and works without high resources consuming. Another good feature of this version of SPAMfighter is the possibility to import blocked emails marked by you from your email client. This thing is useful if you have the email client installed by a lot of time and you decide to install SPAMfighter. In this moment the software automatically imports all the spammers blocked by you directly in blacklist.
This antispam it has a large community which communicate with this software so when one or two of them marked a spam you’ll be protected against the same spammer. This is a very good thing because the unsolicited emails will be moved directly to spam folder.
A weak point at this software is that a lot of users mark an email to be a spammer you’ll not receive the email in inbox because it will be moved in spam directory. Anyway you can easily unmark the email from the SPAMfighter folder.
We recommend this version of SPAMfighter to all home users with no experience in spam environment. The program is lightweight and can be installed to almost any weak computer, without slowdown the speed.
