The Bottom Line
EmC is a powerful, flexible and effective anti-spam and antivirus tool — once you've found out how to use it.
Pros
- EmC offers flexible spam and virus filtering
- Many filters included
- Downloadable filter updates
Cons
- EmC's English translation not perfect
- Unpolished, unfinished edges
- Works only with POP accounts
Description
- EmC checks multiple POP accounts for new mail.
- Flexible filters detect spam and viruses.
- You can delete unwanted emails directly from the server.
- EmC includes graphical email statistics.
- You can download filter updates to keep EmC up to date.
- Blacklist and friends list manage known senders.
- EmC can reply to spam automatically.
- EmC supports Windows 9x/ME/NT/2000/XP.
Guide Review - EmC 5.0 - Spam Filter
EmC (for "Email Control") is a very capable anti-spam and antivirus tool. Its filters are flexible enough, and it comes with a bunch of them that do pretty well spotting the most common spam and viruses. As an additional bonus, you can download filter updates for the latest viruses or spammers' techniques.
Unfortunately, though, the product feels unpolished, in certain parts unfinished even. Together with the less than perfect English translation, it is not always clear what your next action should be — and how the program will react.
Once you get the hang of EmC's a bit obscure interface, however, you can put it to very good use.
