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Updated Sunday 15 May, 2011 12:18 PM |
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Norton AntiSpam – A
Review Regular readers will know that I don’t
often review programs, particularly ones that have no Alternate History use at
all. Sudden Strike, for example,
has many different uses for the alternate historian, so why, you might ask, have
I decided to review Norton AntiSpam? The simple fact is that the program is
next to useless for me. Now, I’m
a big fan of most of Norton’s products, but this one was a big disappointment.
The main problem is that its impossible to configure it to recognise
group mail and that it cannot work with hotmail.
For me, those are both big inconveniences. For example, lets say that Fred sends me
a spam message via the CTT group. Ok,
so I use NAS to define the message as spam – so all’s right?
Not quite, the program decides that the originating address for the spam
is the group email address – so all messages from the CTT group are classed as
spam, and therefore blocked. Further, I use a hotmail account for
most of my mail and I needed NAS for that.
No luck, it can’t handle such email accounts.
Accounts that are private or work with a POP3 server seem to work fine,
but hotmail’s out. A serious
problem. Few other notes: When you install the
program, it automatically adds the people in your default Windows address book
to its whitelist. You can add names
only from the default address book. An interesting and promising program,
but not one that is of real use to me. It
might be more use to a school or an organisation that uses home email addresses.
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