Cactus Spam Filter 2.13

• Popularity:

  #2 in Spam Filters (out of 274 products)

• License:

  Free

• Editor's Rating:

  4.0 stars

• Average User Rating:

  4.0 stars (out of 236 votes) Rate it!

• Downloads:

  98,270

• Requirements:

  Windows 2000/XP/2003 Server

• Limitations:

  No limitations

• Date Added:

  June 21, 2006

• Previous Versions:

  Select a version Cactus Spam Filter 2.11 Cactus Spam Filter 2.1 Cactus Spam Filter 2.01 Cactus Spam Filter 2.0 Cactus Spam Filter 1.20 Cactus Spam Filter 1.13

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Publisher's description of Cactus Spam Filter

Cactus Spam Filter is a spam blocker. It protects your inbox by learning to detect spam as it's being used. After a short while it has adapted to your personal mailbox and blocks out most of the junk e-mail. This spam stopper integrates seamlessly with all e-mail clients that use POP3 such as Microsoft Outlook, Microsoft Outlook Express, Netscape, Opera, Mozilla, Mozilla Thunderbird, Eudora, Pegasus Mail, IncrediMail, Foxmail, POP Peeper, Command Line POP Client and Phoenix Mail. After you have downloaded and installed it no more settings are required. No account setup and no POP proxies. Just start your favorite e-mail program and Cactus Spam Filter will instantly protect it.

Version 2.13 features bug fixes, usability improvements, and possibility to look up spam on Internet.

Editor's review of Cactus Spam Filter

• 4.0 stars

You won't get pricked by this helpful e-mail spam filter, but training it to recognize spam takes a little patience. Cactus Spam Filter's interface is a lesson in simplicity, with plain text and logical controls. The program's installation had to be one of the easiest we've found in this genre. The filter works almost instantly for 12 major and minor e-mail clients.

That said, you still have to train the filter to recognize spam. If you already have hundreds of spam e-mails in your deleted folder, you'll jumpstart the training process by choosing an e-mail in Cactus Spam Filter's Training Arena and clicking "Spam" or "Good." After following that process a couple hundred times, the utility becomes proficient in finding spam.

With select e-mail clients, you can choose to automatically place the found spam in a special folder or automatically delete it. No matter where you put the e-mail, the program alters the e-mail's subject line to identify it as spam.

The user's manual barely takes up a page, but that's a testament to how easy the program is to use. A few potential users will be disappointed that it only filters POP3 clients. Nevertheless, anyone who uses an e-mail client will find this freeware easy to install and use. Simply put, Cactus Spam Filter dries up your spam.

User reviews

• Average user rating: 4.1 stars out of 236 votes
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• 4 stars

  1 out of 3 people found this review helpful

  Version: Cactus Spam Filter 2.13

  "good"

  by helenrichardson37 on November 25, 2007

  Pros: good

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• 3 stars

  1 out of 2 people found this review helpful

  Version: Cactus Spam Filter 2.13

  "Sounds good"

  by George E Lynn on June 14, 2008

  Pros: It sounds good, but how do you work it???

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• 1 stars

  1 out of 4 people found this review helpful

  Version: Cactus Spam Filter 2.13

  "Deceptive"

  by Vanillaman on June 10, 2008

  Pros: May be great with Email "Clients" such as Outlook or Pegasus, but worth remembering it only works for clients and NOT the likes of Hotmail etc, so remember before you download.

  Cons: YET MORE DECEPTION:

  1. It DOES NOT work on Hotmail or Yahoo and doesn't allow you to add them.

  2. It deceives you by pretending to have an email link to "contact us". This does not work.

  3. Settings page is elusive once installed.

  Altho, this does only apply ONLY to email `clients', not Yahoo! or Hotmail, it is worth remembering that advertising is indeed "Corporate Lieing" and totally all about deceiving the public into using their product. Thats their business.

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• 5 stars

  5 out of 6 people found this review helpful

  Version: Cactus Spam Filter 2.13

  "Very Effective tool"

  by gcasanova on July 23, 2006

  Pros: I used this tool in my wife's PC with Incredimail since they charge a lot of money to protect you from spam.

  It does its work perfectly well.

  For a free product, its easy to use if you read a bit further than one usually does.

  Cons: If you keep mails in a training folder, you keep viruses arrived there too, so be carefull although that may not be dangerous as long as you don't open the attachments.

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• 5 stars

  2 out of 2 people found this review helpful

  Version: Cactus Spam Filter 2.13

  "Great freeware spam filter ! One of the best around the web !"

  by Pcfreakske2000 on April 18, 2007

  Pros: Small lightweight program, easy to use interface, newbie friendly and the best of all : it's FREE !!!

  Cons: None that I can think of.

  Except maybe support for Hotmail and other webmail services would be good in future versions.

  Sometimes gives a "This folder is being processed" message when you open your e-mail client( in my case Mozilla Thunderbird ).

  This is only a minor thing, it doesn't happen every day, though.

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