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Personal AntiSpam
Intego Personal Antispam X5 is the ultimate spam-fighting tool for Mac OS X.

Personal Antispam X5 analyzes your incoming e-mail, determining which messages are spam and which are valid messages, and does so in many ways: by checking a whitelist and blacklist of addresses, message headers, content or layout, URLs in messages, and much more.

Spam is the scourge of the Internet. Almost every Internet user receives spam: undesired e-mail messages selling products and services, messages suggesting that users visit certain web sites, often pornographic, and scams of all kinds. Some people get so much spam that they spend more time sorting their inboxes than they do reading legitimate e-mail; it is not uncommon to receive hundreds of spam messages each day, for only a few dozen legitimate e-mail messages.
System Requirements
Apple Mail or Microsoft Entourage (X, 2004 or 2008) e-mail program
PowerPC or Intel Mac
Mac OS X 10.4 or higher, or Mac OS X Server 10.4 or higher
10 MB free hard disk space

 

Features of Personal Antispam X5 :

  • Filters e-mail and weeds out spam, placing it in a Spam folder
  • Filters spam with Bayesian analysis
  • Filters spam by address, message content, layout and more
  • Filters spam with a whitelist of users' contacts
  • Filters spam by developing a blacklist of spammers' addresses
  • Filters spam by top-level domain; users can exclude specific domains, such as .ru, .cn, .biz and more
  • Filters messages with incorrect encoding and identifiers
  • Filters phishing e-mails
  • Filters attachments for common file names
  • Trusts contacts in user's Address Book
  • Trusts ISP's spam headers
  • Learns from the spam users receive
  • Learns from legitimate e-mails
  • Does not slow down e-mail programs
  • Regular updates help fight spam as new types appear