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Top 14 Free Spam Filters for Windows

By Heinz Tschabitscher, About.com

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?

11. BullGuard Spamfilter - Free Spam Filter

BullGuard Spamfilter - Free Spam FilterHeinz Tschabitscher
BullGuard Spamfilter plugs into Outlook, Outlook Express and Mozilla Thunderbird to filter spam quite effectively and without much effort on your part.

12. G-Lock SpamCombat - Free Spam Filter

G-Lock SpamCombat - Free Spam FilterHeinz Tschabitscher
G-Lock SpamCombat is a comprehensive and competent Bayesian spam filter that can make use of DNS blacklists, too. It's a pity it only works with POP accounts and requires a bit more user action than should be necessary.

13. MailWasher Free - Free Spam Filter

MailWasher Free - Free Spam FilterHeinz Tschabitscher
MailWasher Free is a flexible, elegant and quite effective spam filtering solution. Unfortunately, MailWasher Free only works with one POP account and lacks the statistics- blacklist- and server-based filtering so conveniently found in MailWasher Pro.

14. SpamWeasel - Free Spam Filter

With a full-fledged scripting language for filters, SpamWeasel is one of the more powerful anti-spam tools. While it works great out of the box, writing new filters isn't easy.

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