Re: Norton Internet Security - spam alert gone mad

From: Norm (nsepp_at_shaw.ca)
Date: 06/01/04 

Date: Mon, 31 May 2004 22:50:30 GMT

I endorse Duane's comments. I've been a user of Mailwasher for over a year
and am so impressed with it that I purchased the "pro" version. It works
very well and the preview function eliminates the concern with the use of
the OE Preview Pane. 

-- 
Norm
"Duane Arnold" <notme@notme.com> wrote in message
news:Xns94FA8CD7DA4B4notmenotmecoml@63.240.76.16...
> "Linea Recta" <mccm.vos@abc.net> wrote in
> news:2i1aqhFi7g1vU1@uni-berlin.de:
>
> > "Duane Arnold" <notme@notme.com> schreef in bericht
> > news:Xns94FA76798F3F9notmenotmecoml@63.240.76.16...
> >> "Linea Recta" <mccm.vos@abc.net> wrote in
> >> news:2i0lguFhq47tU1@uni-berlin.de:
> >>
> >> > I have had installed Norton Internet Security 2003 for about half a
> >> > year (slider on medium level) and I check for updates daily. But
> >> > now I'm afraid that the spam alert option has gone mad! Messages
> >> > from my regular correspondents are detected as "spam" and are
> >> > removed. I know I can except certain companies with "not spam" in
> >> > NIS, but I'm nog going to add my whole addressbook!
> >> >
> >> > So there's another fine option wich has to be disabled.
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > PS In one pass I received spam messages for auto loans and pharmacy
> >> > products, which passed "spam alert" without being detected at all.
> >> >
> >> >
> >>
> >> Norton's PFW is into spam mail? There is a nice little tool to
> >> conrtol and filter spam mail and kill it at the POP3 server called
> >> Mailwasher and it's (free). I have never had a problem with it.
> >
> >
> > Sounds too good to be true, but... then how on earth can you check
> > wether "false spam" gets deleted like NIS seems to do? And it might be
> > just those important messages from one of your contacts...
> > At least I direct my "spam" to a dedicated directory first for
> > checking purposes, and not redundantly so it seems.
> >
> >
>
> Mailwasher doesn't delete anything until one gives the command. It allows
> one to look at the email and has a virus checker as well. The filtering
> rules allows the *mark deletion* of emails. The user has the control as
> to when things happen with the deletion at the POP3 server.  It allows
> one to look at things at the POP3 server before even pulling the email to
> the email client. The user has the control as to when an email will reach
> any directory on the machine.
>
> I like the part about Mailwasher having the ability to start the email
> client to pull the emails into the Inbox, which I have taken the email
> client software such as OE and Outlook out of their Send/Receive emails
> at startup and on a timed basis.
>
> I got the control as to when an email will show up in the Inbox and 9
> times out of 10 the email never reaches the machine, because of
> Mailwasher and the control it gives me.
>
> A spam mail PFW my goodness it seems like *bloat*. What happen to the FW
> part in the product? :)
>
> Duane :)
>
>
>
>
>

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