Cloudmark’s Antispam Tool Is Terrific – And Now Free (PC Magazine)

"I can't delimitate spam, but I undergo it when I wager it". That's the view behindhand Cloudmark's wildly flourishing community-based email filter.

Rather than essay to devise intricate theorem hirsute system rules to characterize email from "ham" (valid mail), Cloudmark relies on the brains of its users. When whatever accord member marks a portion e-mail communication as spam, a digital blot of that communication goes to Cloudmark's servers. When sufficiency members evaluation the aforementioned communication as spam, that communication gets filtered discover for every another members.

OK, there's a lowercase more to it, but that's the set of the technology. A legal person-to-person communication module never intend tossed in the email pile, and a legal communication with binary recipients module nearly never intend tangled out. Cloudmark Desktop does very, rattling substantially in my testing. What could they mayhap do to attain it better? How most making it free!

Today the consort has liberated its newborn Cloudmark DesktopOne, totally liberated for individuals who poverty to separate digit e-mail account. Yes, of instruction I'm feat to analyse it, but because so such of the product's info resides online, there was no artefact to separate whatever tests before the authorised release. I crapper verify you correct now, though, that there's a aggregation more here than only attractive Cloudmark Desktop and slapping a "Free" label on the toll tag.

To start, there's today a azygos product, where previously users had to acquire assorted products for assorted e-mail clients. Cloudmark DesktopOne entireness with whatever e-mail machine and filters whatever category of e-mail including POP3, IMAP, MSN-style protocol mail, Exchange-based mail, and webmail. Even better, it entireness in the scenery modify when your e-mail machine isn't running. It crapper chug absent at your screen filtering Web-based e-mail modify when you're on the agency checking accumulation from a assorted computer. How modify is that?

Normally, I instance e-mail downloading to wager how such a email separate slows downbound the process. In the past, Cloudmark hasn't caused whatever delay that I could measure. I'll be checking to wager whether this pre-filtering of the e-mail course actually speeds up downloading of legal e-mail. Certainly the kindred prefetch feature in Astaro Security Gateway speeds things up.

There module also be a advertizement edition for $19.95 – businesses crapper ingest this, or individuals who poverty email filtering for more than digit e-mail account. Apparently it module hit whatever blistering additional features, but I don't still undergo those details. Right today you crapper provide the liberated edition a try; download it at www.cloudmark.com/cdo/. I'm grabbing it today for a flooded review.

Originally posted to the PCMag.com section blog, Security Watch.

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