Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Limited support for Outlook Express, no support for Netscape
Nearly all the features of this program are limited to uses of OUTLOOK (the big brother to Outlook Express). Outlook Express users are limited to an automation of the existing Blocked Senders List function. Outook Express users could, in fact, save their money, use the Blocked Senders List, edit the blocked senders down to their domains, and achieve the same spam-blocking results (~80%).Outlook users should seriously consider this program. Outlook Express users should consider the McAfee program. Netscape users, Eudora users, and all others cannot use this program as only Microsoft Outlook/Outlook Express are supported.
Rating:  - "The best in Mexico"
".... Since we are using this software all emails are welcome here in my company...."
Rating:  - I don't hate "I Hate Spam!"
As a result of reading the reviews here, I returned McAfee's Spamkiller unopened and bought this package. It's worked well for me so far in the month I've had it. The tool bar it places on top of Outlook is convenient. Configured for medium-level filtering it seems to catch about 80% of the spam, although it also thinks two of the legitimate newsletters I get are spam. This is no problem, however, as you can manually declare them as friends, and after that they don't get quarantined. The same is true of undetected spam, which you can declare as an "enemy."One thing I should mention is that I use it in Outlook Express mode. You don't get the full capabilities unless you use the full Outlook program. But so far it's been fine as is. The "quarantined" messages automatically go into your "Deleted" items folder, where you can look at them there if you want to, to make sure nothing important got zapped. One nice feature of the program is that you can Bounce any message back to the spammer. This makes it look like you have an invalid email or internet address, which hopefully causes you to be automatically removed from the lists sometimes and reduces your spam over time. My only complaint is that this feature is slow to respond and actually send out the messages after you click on "Bounce." For some reason, there can be a 30 second to a minute delay when doing this, and I've found that if you Bounce too many messages before it has time to clear some of them out and start sending, it sometimes hangs my Outlook Express program. My hard disk sometimes starts noticeably thrashing when this happens, so I may just be running short of RAM or virtual memory. I only have 128 megs of RAM, but I don't do that much with my system. However, I just bought a 512M upgrade that I plan to install, and see if that helps the situation somewhat. I wouldn't think the combination of Outlook Express and I Hate Spam would be that memory intensive. Overall, however, this has been a good program, and I'd actually give it 4.5 stars if I could.
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