Which FREE antispam do you find the best?

[Lisandro]

Does anybody tested Comodo AntiSpam?

[bob3160]

Hi vlk,

The best effort: http://dspam.nuclearelephant.com/

polonus

Sorry Polonus but you elphant seems to have stopped running.... The website isn't opening.

[Lisandro]

Sorry Polonus but you elphant seems to have stopped running.... The website isn't opening.

Bob, I succeed on downloading it...
Polonus, is it only for Linux? I could not find the 'system requirements' and the downloaded file is a .tar file 

[Chris C]

I never get spam.  Guess I've been lucky.  I'm on Yahoo and they claim 99.9%, I think.

[marteltor]

mine is K9
really good working

[a61_a61]

Been using Comodo Anti_SPAM on three computers now for two months and it works great for me. Zero SPAM. 

PS:  It cleans itself of all SPAM, you don't have to go in and look at it or delete it.

[FreewheelinFrank]

I'm on Yahoo and they claim 99.9%

I can believe that. I'm on Yahoo! too. I went away for 7 weeks in the summer and had 600 spam emails in my junk folder when I got back. 3 junk mails had got through, which is 99.5%.

I think junk emails are deleted after 1 month, so the real figure was probably even better than this, and may well be 99.9%.

I pity anybody who doesn't have such a good service and gets this crap in their inbox! 

[DavidR]

My Hotmail is on account 100%, everything that I receive there is Junk/Spam all I ever do is use mail washer to delete the contents.

[bob3160]

Which is my hotmail account, hardly ever contains any spam. 

[WhIzAtIt]

I am a Technician at a local computer store. Most <Free> or <Freeware> either have spyware, viruses or malware that are installed on a computer when the program is setup. If you want a good spam filter....
DO NOT DOWNLOAD A FREE PROGRAM. [/b] [/i] [/size] [/font] It will more than likely have maleware, spyware or other unwanted software installed. You GET WHAT YOU PAY FOR. Its free for a reason. Yes there are some, (and i mean limited) programs that dont. Those are hard to find. So if you want a spam filter my suggestion would be to buy a good known program that is listed on a reputable site and has lots of feedback that is positive about the program.

Thats just my 2 cents. 9/10ths of EVERY computer that comes in the shop is riddled with spyware and maleware and viruses due to the fact they download FREEWARE like weather bug, time sync and all the other goodies that seem to help you out by telling you the temp outside or giving you a free pointer that laughs when you click or something of that nature.

The rule of thumb is "If its free, its got a catch."

[John Galt]

I am a Technician at a local computer store.

The rule of thumb is "If its free, its got a catch."

I'm also a computer tech, and have my own store, and fully agree with your comments especially when it comes to spyware, spam and the like. Test it..and most good programs give you a full trial, and if it does the job....BUY iT!

[Lisandro]

The rule of thumb is "If its free, its got a catch."

Well, I completely disagree of this.
There are TONS of good and clean freeware round. What you need to do is downloading it from CLEAN sites.
There are TONS of clean sites (download.com snapfiles fileforum filehippo etc. etc.).
There is no need to be affraid of freeware if you have a good antivirus and antispyware, if you know the source of the download.

For me, the rule of thumb is "God save the freeware and opensource" 

[Magister]

I am using K9 for years now, I really like it, it's lightweight, easy to use, etc

[bob3160]

WhIzAtIt,
You must have a lot of money. 
The majority of 'FREE" programs are good and rival commercial software. There are however some free programs to contain
an unwanted payload and should be avoided. A simple google search and some common sense usually brings these rotten eggs to the surface.

If you're in doubt about a certain type of program, there are also lots of places where a second opinion is always available.
This is one of those places. 

[WhIzAtIt]

Oh yes i couldnt agree with all of you more , but the better freeware is hard to find without, as some have mentioned, downloading and installing it to try it.

Yes there are good freeware programs out there its just finding them. And i couldnt agree more about doing a google for the program in refrence to its relation to spyware and malware, however the average joe that brings there computer in the shop dont think of it this way. They see a new free program that keeps important dates and reminds them in a week or a day that its coming soon. But BLAMMO they got nailed.

In conclusion:

there are several good known tools to get rid of these unwanted programs.

Like HijackThis, Spybot, Ad-Aware, AVAST <YAY>, and bazooka that are totally free!!! So you have to agree there are some VERY good free programs out there its just finding them.