Windows Spam Fighting Tools
Of the 94 emails you got today, 92 were spam? The 'Del' key is your best friend? Anti-spam tools are here to help. The best ones render your Inbox virtually spam-free, and you'll hardly notice them working.
Top Free Spam Filters for Windows
Filtering spam is not a nice job. Fortunately, there's smart software that can rid your Inbox of all the junk mail efficiently and easily. Would you be surprised if some of the best anti-spam tools for Windows were free?
Filtering spam is not a nice job. Fortunately, there's smart software that can rid your Inbox of all the junk mail efficiently and easily. Would you be surprised if some of the best anti-spam tools for Windows were free?
Top Windows Spam Filters
Of the 94 emails you got today, 92 were spam? The most-hit key when using your email program is 'Del'? Anti-spam tools are here to help. They wade through all the emails you receive and sort out all the unwanted ones before they reach your email program's Inbox. Here are my picks for Windows users.
Of the 94 emails you got today, 92 were spam? The most-hit key when using your email program is 'Del'? Anti-spam tools are here to help. They wade through all the emails you receive and sort out all the unwanted ones before they reach your email program's Inbox. Here are my picks for Windows users.
(STEVEN) - Spam Filter
(STEVEN) blocks a lot of spam by making sure only mail from authorized senders with a valid From: address gets through.
(STEVEN) blocks a lot of spam by making sure only mail from authorized senders with a valid From: address gets through.
Active Email Monitor - Spam Filter
Active Email Monitor is a simple mail checker, but it can also operate quite successfully as a anti-spam and antivirus tool.
Active Email Monitor is a simple mail checker, but it can also operate quite successfully as a anti-spam and antivirus tool.
Advanced Spam Defense - Spam Filter
Advanced Spam Defense looks and feels great. Don't let yourself be lulled into its name and interface's promise of competence, though.
Advanced Spam Defense looks and feels great. Don't let yourself be lulled into its name and interface's promise of competence, though.
Anti-Spam EmailGuard - Spam Filter
Anti-Spam EmailGuard is a relatively competent, easy to use and feature-rich anti-spam tool.
Anti-Spam EmailGuard is a relatively competent, easy to use and feature-rich anti-spam tool.
AntiSpamWare - Spam Filter
Filter a good deal of spam easily, and complain about it, too.
Filter a good deal of spam easily, and complain about it, too.
Apocgraphy - Spam Filter
Apocgraphy is your one-stop solution to private, safe and spam-free email. It removes spam, viruses and privacy threats.
Apocgraphy is your one-stop solution to private, safe and spam-free email. It removes spam, viruses and privacy threats.
BullGuard Spamfilter - Free Spam Filter
BullGuard Spamfilter plugs into Outlook, Outlook Express and Mozilla Thunderbird to filter spam quite effectively and without much effort on your part.
BullGuard Spamfilter plugs into Outlook, Outlook Express and Mozilla Thunderbird to filter spam quite effectively and without much effort on your part.
Cactus Spam Filter - Free Spam Filter
Cactus Spam Filter is a really easy to use and pretty precise spam filter.
Cactus Spam Filter is a really easy to use and pretty precise spam filter.
Chrysanth Mail Manager - Spam Filter
Chrysanth Mail Manager lets you filters your mail using DNS blacklists of known spammers in an easy to use and elegant interface.
Chrysanth Mail Manager lets you filters your mail using DNS blacklists of known spammers in an easy to use and elegant interface.
Cloudmark Desktop - Spam Filter
Cloudmark Desktop is a great and easy to use junk and phishing mail solution with an excellent spam detection rate and an even better record of avoiding false positives.
Cloudmark Desktop is a great and easy to use junk and phishing mail solution with an excellent spam detection rate and an even better record of avoiding false positives.
E-Proxy - Spam Filter
E-Proxy 2000 has an interesting concept of filtering spam, and an interesting (and amazingly confusing) interface.
E-Proxy 2000 has an interesting concept of filtering spam, and an interesting (and amazingly confusing) interface.
Ella for Spam Control - Spam Filter
Ella for Spam Control is a wonderful and highly useful plug-in for Outlook and Outlook Express that not only effectively eliminates spam but prioritizes good mail, too.
Ella for Spam Control is a wonderful and highly useful plug-in for Outlook and Outlook Express that not only effectively eliminates spam but prioritizes good mail, too.
Email Remover - Spam Filter
Email Remover makes it easy to clean an account of spam manually, but provides no automation and enforces its wizard mode.
Email Remover makes it easy to clean an account of spam manually, but provides no automation and enforces its wizard mode.
eMailTrackerPro - Spam Tracking Tool
eMailTrackerPro is an easy to use tool for analyzing email headers to disclose the original sender's (or spammer's) location.
eMailTrackerPro is an easy to use tool for analyzing email headers to disclose the original sender's (or spammer's) location.
EmC - Spam Filter
EmC is a powerful, flexible and effective anti-spam and antivirus tool — once you've found out how to use it.
EmC is a powerful, flexible and effective anti-spam and antivirus tool — once you've found out how to use it.
eTrust Anti-Spam - Spam Filter
eTrust Anti-Spam allows only mail from approved senders to your Inbox, checks sender credentials to warn about phishing attempts and lets you search your emails quickly, too.
eTrust Anti-Spam allows only mail from approved senders to your Inbox, checks sender credentials to warn about phishing attempts and lets you search your emails quickly, too.
Flystrike Spam Interrogator - Spam Filter
Flystrike Spam Interrogator offers some useful spam filtering and can trace spammers, too, but its utterly confusing interface makes using Flystrike a challenge.
Flystrike Spam Interrogator offers some useful spam filtering and can trace spammers, too, but its utterly confusing interface makes using Flystrike a challenge.
G-Lock SpamCombat - Free Spam Filter
G-Lock SpamCombat is a comprehensive and competent Bayesian spam filter that can make use of DNS blacklists, too.
G-Lock SpamCombat is a comprehensive and competent Bayesian spam filter that can make use of DNS blacklists, too.
Herbivore - Spam Filter
Herbivore uses a simple, collaborative concept to identify, and automatically remove, spam.
Herbivore uses a simple, collaborative concept to identify, and automatically remove, spam.
iHateSpam Outlook Edition - Spam Filter
iHateSpam Outlook Edition is an easy to use and powerful anti-spam plug-in for Outlook. Its only problem is the less than stellar spam detection rate.
iHateSpam Outlook Edition is an easy to use and powerful anti-spam plug-in for Outlook. Its only problem is the less than stellar spam detection rate.
iHateSpam Outlook Express Edition - Spam Filter
iHateSpam Outlook Express Edition adds some nice (but not sufficient) anti-spam rules to Outlook Express and keeps them up to date automatically.
iHateSpam Outlook Express Edition adds some nice (but not sufficient) anti-spam rules to Outlook Express and keeps them up to date automatically.
IMAP Spam Begone - Free Spam Filter
IMAP Spam Begone lets you apply great SpamAssassin spam filtering to any IMAP account. It works reliably and efficiently, but different actions depending on the spam score would be nice.
IMAP Spam Begone lets you apply great SpamAssassin spam filtering to any IMAP account. It works reliably and efficiently, but different actions depending on the spam score would be nice.
InboxCop Anti-Spam - Spam Filter
InboxCop Anti-Spam is a transparent and somewhat effective spam filter that works with many account types.
InboxCop Anti-Spam is a transparent and somewhat effective spam filter that works with many account types.
InBoxer - Spam Filter
InBoxer implements great Bayesian spam filtering in an intelligent and easy to use way.
InBoxer implements great Bayesian spam filtering in an intelligent and easy to use way.
Junk Muncher - Spam Filter
Junk Muncher is a simple anti-spam tool that works by looking for certain key phrases in incoming mail.
Junk Muncher is a simple anti-spam tool that works by looking for certain key phrases in incoming mail.
Junk-Out - Spam Filter
Junk-Out is a great anti-spam plug-in for Outlook. It combines the simplicity of Bayesian filters that just get it right with lots of flexibility.
Junk-Out is a great anti-spam plug-in for Outlook. It combines the simplicity of Bayesian filters that just get it right with lots of flexibility.
K9 - Free Spam Filter
K9 is a wonderfully precise, easy to use and fast learning Bayesian spam filtering tool.
K9 is a wonderfully precise, easy to use and fast learning Bayesian spam filtering tool.
KillSpam - Spam Filter
KillSpam is a neat tool for browsing a mailbox quickly, deleting one or the other unwanted message. In spite of its name, KillSpam is no efficient anti-spam tool, however.
KillSpam is a neat tool for browsing a mailbox quickly, deleting one or the other unwanted message. In spite of its name, KillSpam is no efficient anti-spam tool, however.
KnockKnock - Spam Filter
KnockKnock bans spam by requiring senders to be approved, and by using statistical filtering.
KnockKnock bans spam by requiring senders to be approved, and by using statistical filtering.
Lockspam Pro - Spam Filter
Lockspam locks away just about all spam in a special folder in Outlook (but also works with other email programs). Unfortunately, this is also where you'll have to look for all your good mail.
Lockspam locks away just about all spam in a special folder in Outlook (but also works with other email programs). Unfortunately, this is also where you'll have to look for all your good mail.
Mail Box Dispatcher - Spam Filter
Mail Box Dispatcher is a handy tool that spots spam in POP accounts precisely and lets you get rid of it before you even download the unwanted messages in your main email program.
Mail Box Dispatcher is a handy tool that spots spam in POP accounts precisely and lets you get rid of it before you even download the unwanted messages in your main email program.
Mail Snoop Pro - Spam Filter
Mail Snoop Pro makes for a nice mail checker, and it comes with a long list of filters aimed at curbing spam.
Mail Snoop Pro makes for a nice mail checker, and it comes with a long list of filters aimed at curbing spam.
Mailbox Filter - Spam Filter
Mailbox Filter has a simple, but fairly effective concept to rule out spam and malicious attachments.
Mailbox Filter has a simple, but fairly effective concept to rule out spam and malicious attachments.
Mailbox Guard - Spam Filter
Mailbox Guard is a nice, easy to use tool to protect you against all the bad things that come via email. While it is effective against viruses it spam filters are not precise enough.
Mailbox Guard is a nice, easy to use tool to protect you against all the bad things that come via email. While it is effective against viruses it spam filters are not precise enough.
MailFisher - Spam Filter
MailFisher uses a combination of spam filtering techniques (among them DNS blacklists, Bayesian statistics) to move junk mail to a special folder in Outlook.
MailFisher uses a combination of spam filtering techniques (among them DNS blacklists, Bayesian statistics) to move junk mail to a special folder in Outlook.
MailFrontier Desktop - Spam Filter
MailFrontier Desktop combines multiple anti-spam techniques to get the best possible spam protection.
MailFrontier Desktop combines multiple anti-spam techniques to get the best possible spam protection.
MailMate - Spam Filter
MailMate is a solid and easy to use anti-spam tool that does catch a good deal of spam.
MailMate is a solid and easy to use anti-spam tool that does catch a good deal of spam.
MailSweep - Spam Filter
MailSweep is a great and easy to use tool for cleaning a remote POP mailbox.
MailSweep is a great and easy to use tool for cleaning a remote POP mailbox.
MailWasher Free - Free Spam Filter
MailWasher Free is a simple, elegant and quite effective solution to spam.
MailWasher Free is a simple, elegant and quite effective solution to spam.
MailWasher Pro - Spam Filter
MailWasher Pro is a highly competent, usable, secure and time-saving spam filtering tool. Combining multiple approaches, MailWasher Pro achieves a solid spam detection rate and protects you from viruses to some extent, too.
MailWasher Pro is a highly competent, usable, secure and time-saving spam filtering tool. Combining multiple approaches, MailWasher Pro achieves a solid spam detection rate and protects you from viruses to some extent, too.
McAfee SpamKiller - Spam Filter
McAfee SpamKiller is an easy to use spam filter with a rich set of sophisticated filters that spot most spam. Unfortunately, its rate of false positives is too high.
McAfee SpamKiller is an easy to use spam filter with a rich set of sophisticated filters that spot most spam. Unfortunately, its rate of false positives is too high.
No Spam Today! for Servers - Spam Filter
No Spam Today! for Servers makes it easy to configure and use proven and effective SpamAssassin filtering with any mail server on Windows.
No Spam Today! for Servers makes it easy to configure and use proven and effective SpamAssassin filtering with any mail server on Windows.
No Spam Today! for Workstations - Spam Filter
No Spam Today! for Workstations provides easy to set up and use yet precise and transparent junk mail filtering for POP email accounts.
No Spam Today! for Workstations provides easy to set up and use yet precise and transparent junk mail filtering for POP email accounts.
Outclass - Spam Filter
Outclass integrates POPFile with Outlook for easy to use and extremely accurate spam filtering and automatic mail classification.
Outclass integrates POPFile with Outlook for easy to use and extremely accurate spam filtering and automatic mail classification.
POPFile - Free Spam Filter
POPFile uses Bayesian statistical analysis to sort your email automatically, and precisely sort out all the spam, too.
POPFile uses Bayesian statistical analysis to sort your email automatically, and precisely sort out all the spam, too.
QuarantineMail - Spam Filter
Get rid of practically all spam with QuarantineMail, a Outlook plug-in that implements a radical approach to eliminating spam.
Get rid of practically all spam with QuarantineMail, a Outlook plug-in that implements a radical approach to eliminating spam.
Spam Assault! Pro - Spam Filter
Spam Assault! Pro turns removing spam into an easy three-step process. Unfortunately, the filtering step is not flexible and efficient enough.
Spam Assault! Pro turns removing spam into an easy three-step process. Unfortunately, the filtering step is not flexible and efficient enough.
Spam Bully - Spam Filter
Spam Bully is a great and efficient anti-spam tool. If you train it well, Spam Bully can rid your Inbox of unwanted emails almost completely.
Spam Bully is a great and efficient anti-spam tool. If you train it well, Spam Bully can rid your Inbox of unwanted emails almost completely.
Spam Buster - Spam Filter
Spam Buster is neither fancy nor pretty, but a practical and quite useful anti-spam tool.
Spam Buster is neither fancy nor pretty, but a practical and quite useful anti-spam tool.
Spam CounterStrike - Spam Filter
Spam CounterStrike strikes back at spam with pretty good (though not perfect) filters and a flexible design.
Spam CounterStrike strikes back at spam with pretty good (though not perfect) filters and a flexible design.
Spam Filter Express - Spam Filter
Spam Filter Express cans spam effectively in Outlook Express and Outlook using adaptive filtering.
Spam Filter Express cans spam effectively in Outlook Express and Outlook using adaptive filtering.
Spam Manager - Spam Filter
Spam Manager can tag or remove spam on multiple POP accounts using built-in filters and blackhole lists.
Spam Manager can tag or remove spam on multiple POP accounts using built-in filters and blackhole lists.
Spam Monitor - Spam Filter
Spam Monitor employs a sophisticated and powerful set of tools to detect spam, but lacks precision with its default settings.
Spam Monitor employs a sophisticated and powerful set of tools to detect spam, but lacks precision with its default settings.
Spam OFF - Spam Filter
Spam OFF is a comprehensive spam and virus filtering solution that combines multiple strong methods of junk mail detection.
Spam OFF is a comprehensive spam and virus filtering solution that combines multiple strong methods of junk mail detection.
Spam Sleuth - Spam Filter
Spam Sleuth is a comprehensive anti-spam tool, and thanks to its Bayesian filtering it can also be very effective against junk email.
Spam Sleuth is a comprehensive anti-spam tool, and thanks to its Bayesian filtering it can also be very effective against junk email.
SpamAid - Spam Filter
Using Bayesian statistics, SpamAid achieves a great spam detection rate and is really easy to use.
Using Bayesian statistics, SpamAid achieves a great spam detection rate and is really easy to use.
SpamArrow - Spam Filter
SpamArrow integrates SpamAssassin filtering (including adaptive Bayesian analysis) with Outlook Express so well you'd think it was built in.
SpamArrow integrates SpamAssassin filtering (including adaptive Bayesian analysis) with Outlook Express so well you'd think it was built in.
Spamato - Free Spam Filter
Spamato filters POP and IMAP accounts for spam with the potential for high precision and plug-ins that make it easy to use in Outlook and Mozilla Thunderbird.
Spamato filters POP and IMAP accounts for spam with the potential for high precision and plug-ins that make it easy to use in Outlook and Mozilla Thunderbird.
SpamBayes - Free Spam Filter
SpamBayes employs sophisticated analysis using Bayesian statistics to rid your email Inbox of junk mail precisely and in an effortless manner.
SpamBayes employs sophisticated analysis using Bayesian statistics to rid your email Inbox of junk mail precisely and in an effortless manner.
SpamBurner - Spam Filter
SpamBurner is easy to use, and it will efficiently burn lots of spam for you.
SpamBurner is easy to use, and it will efficiently burn lots of spam for you.
SpamButcher - Spam Filter
SpamButcher is an easy to use anti-spam tool, and it is an effective one -- maybe too effective.
SpamButcher is an easy to use anti-spam tool, and it is an effective one -- maybe too effective.
SpamCatcher - Spam Filter
SpamCatcher combines content filters and a registry of known spam. Unfortunately, the results are not as precise as they could be.
SpamCatcher combines content filters and a registry of known spam. Unfortunately, the results are not as precise as they could be.
SpamChoke - Spam Filter
SpamChoke is easy to use, doesn't require much effort and offers a solid, though not perfect, spam detection rate.
SpamChoke is easy to use, doesn't require much effort and offers a solid, though not perfect, spam detection rate.
SpamEater Pro - Spam Filter
This great anti-spam tool not only removes junk before it reaches your email Inbox, it also has the capability to efficiently complain about it.
This great anti-spam tool not only removes junk before it reaches your email Inbox, it also has the capability to efficiently complain about it.
SpamExperts Home - Free Spam Filter
SpamExperts Home identifies and eliminates spam precisely and, thanks to its plugging right into the email transport, works without configuration with any email program and just about any email account.
SpamExperts Home identifies and eliminates spam precisely and, thanks to its plugging right into the email transport, works without configuration with any email program and just about any email account.
SPAMfighter Pro - Spam Filter
SPAMfighter Pro is an easy to use spam filter for Outlook, Windows Mail and Outlook Express that uses the community of its users who report junk to detect it for all others.
SPAMfighter Pro is an easy to use spam filter for Outlook, Windows Mail and Outlook Express that uses the community of its users who report junk to detect it for all others.
Spamfire - Spam Filter
Spamfire combines sophisticated filters with ease of use to form a great anti-spam tool.
Spamfire combines sophisticated filters with ease of use to form a great anti-spam tool.
SpamGunner - Spam Filter
SpamGunner is a solid anti-spam tool for POP accounts. Unfortunately, SpamGunner's filters -- frequently updated and not useless -- don't achieve the accuracy of Bayesian or scoring filtering.
SpamGunner is a solid anti-spam tool for POP accounts. Unfortunately, SpamGunner's filters -- frequently updated and not useless -- don't achieve the accuracy of Bayesian or scoring filtering.
Spamihilator - Free Spam Filter
Spamihilator is a pretty, easy to use anti-spam tool that works with any email client and, thanks to Bayesian filters, has a good detection rate.
Spamihilator is a pretty, easy to use anti-spam tool that works with any email client and, thanks to Bayesian filters, has a good detection rate.
Spamnix - Spam Filter
Using SpamAssassin's clever filters, Spamnix removes most of the incoming spam from your Eudora Inbox automatically and easily.
Using SpamAssassin's clever filters, Spamnix removes most of the incoming spam from your Eudora Inbox automatically and easily.
SpamPal - Free Spam Filter
SpamPal filters all your incoming mail against all the major blackhole lists of known spammers.
SpamPal filters all your incoming mail against all the major blackhole lists of known spammers.
spamPepper - Spam Filter
spamPepper is a very clean and efficient spam filtering tool. It uses challenging messages to block about all spam.
spamPepper is a very clean and efficient spam filtering tool. It uses challenging messages to block about all spam.
SpamRIP - Free Spam Filter
SpamRIP is a highly precise spam filter for any POP email account.
SpamRIP is a highly precise spam filter for any POP email account.
SpamWeasel - Free Spam Filter
An anti-spam tool needs flexibility and power to spot junk email messages. SpamWeasel delivers both with its scripting language for filtering rules.
An anti-spam tool needs flexibility and power to spot junk email messages. SpamWeasel delivers both with its scripting language for filtering rules.
SpamWeed - Spam Filter
SpamWeed is a simple and easy to use, but effective and competent anti-spam tool using statistics-based filtering.
SpamWeed is a simple and easy to use, but effective and competent anti-spam tool using statistics-based filtering.
SpamX - Spam Filter
SpamX is a great tool for determining the source of spam and lets you send precise and correct complaints easily, too.
SpamX is a great tool for determining the source of spam and lets you send precise and correct complaints easily, too.
Spartacus Spam-Filter - Spam Filter
Spartacus Spam-Filter is a fast, efficient, precise and easy to use spam filtering plug-in for Outlook and Outlook Express.
Spartacus Spam-Filter is a fast, efficient, precise and easy to use spam filtering plug-in for Outlook and Outlook Express.
WinAntiSPAM - Spam Filter
WinAntiSPAM is a simple challenge-response spam fighting tool that works as a POP proxy.
WinAntiSPAM is a simple challenge-response spam fighting tool that works as a POP proxy.
Zaep - Spam Filter
Zaep can help your home or organization get pretty much spam free by allowing only mail from whitelisted senders through.
Zaep can help your home or organization get pretty much spam free by allowing only mail from whitelisted senders through.