Sp@mX v4 Adds Capability to Filter for Spam Before Downloading Your Email

Hendrickson Software Components (hsc) announced today that Sp@mX, which conducts spam source tracing and reporting, has the added the capability to filter email. Starting with version 3.3, Sp@mX users have been collecting data about the spam that they were receiving in a central database on the hsc server. Sp@mX version 4 uses this data to filter email that is in the users email server inbox, so that they can process it using Sp@mX without having to download it to their desktop email inbox. With this offering, Sp@mX now provides a more comprehensive anti-spam solution. It will filter a user's email so they don't have to see the spam, and report the source of the spam along with any "spamvertized" URLs so that their spam level is dramatically reduced. Reporting the spamvertized URLs also gives Sp@mX a powerful anti-phishing capability. Check out Sp@mx v4 at hsc's Web site. The client version is $19.95,

We have not used v4 yet but it looks like a great capability. One of our biggest problems with spam is its sheer volume, taking large amounts of our time to download. Hopefully, v4 eliminate this annoying problem. We have used v3 to cut our spam load from over 4000 per week to about 1300 per week. [Bill Fox]