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Revengeware's DrStopSpam - has a few immitators but none that come close in features, ease of use or value!

Program Name

Ease Of SetUp

Accuracy Of Reporting

Automatic Updates

Ease Of Use

Advanced Levels

Oulook Express Interface

Detailed Help System

On-Line Support Community

Supports HotMail

Works with AOL

Quality Complaint Mail

Web Based

Reports Paid Ad Supporters

DrStopSpam

EASY

EXCELLENT

YES

SIMPLE

THREE

YES

YES(1)

YES(2)

EXCELLENT

YES

SpamX

HARD

FAIR

NONE

GOOD

NONE

FAIR

UNKNOWN

Spam Punisher

EASY

POOR

NONE

HARD

NONE

VERY POOR

McAfee

FAIR

YES

FAIR

NONE

YES

GOOD

UNKNOWN

SpamCop.com

NONE(5)

FAIR

UNKNOWN

FAIR

NONE

YES

UNKNOWN

YES (3)

UNKNOWN

Spam Deputy

POOR

VERY GOOD

NONE

HARD

NONE

YES

YES (4)

YES(4)

GOOD

YES (3)

UNKNOWN

Notes: (1) Hotmail is supported very easily by using Outlook Express to access your email account, which sets up in seconds. (2) AOL spam can be processed by Using Netscape to read your mail. The save the spam to disk (as eml file) and open with DrStopSpam (3) Web based programs take YOUR mail to their site. Unethical site owners could use your information (or spams sent to you based on you shopping habits) to learn a LOT about you! This is how detectives go through peoples garbage and learn about their private lives. A legitimate site purchased by a not so honest owner could damage your privacy. DrStopSpam does ALL its data processing and storage on YOUR computer protecting YOUR privacy. (4) Requires a client connection. (5) Service exists only on the web and requires cut/paste of text from within the spam to their web site.

(3) This is a web based spam reporting service's privacy contract. We do not believe this is something you should want. We believe that some web based reporting service may and do support advertising . Is this consisitent with fighting spam? You decide. The services name has been removed because we do not believe this would benefit you in your decision to purchase a product or service.

(NOTE: this text is coped from a web based spam reporting site and this is NOT related to DrStopSpam or this web site. This is Published here to show the dangers of web based reporting which we do not recommend. Use the scroll bars on the right to see the text below.) PRIVACY GUIDELINES The types of personally identifiable information that may be collected at these pages include: name, address, e-mail address, telephone number, fax number, credit card information, and information about your interests in and use of various products, programs, and services. Information submitted to WEBBASED.SERVICE will be kept confidential unless law requires us to divulge it. WEBBASED.SERVICE reserves the right to collect non-personally identifiable information including but not limited to your IP address, web browser and operating system version, pageviews, clickthroughs for statistical purposes. Third Party Purchases WEBBASED.SERVICE may link to external sites providing products or services, these sites are not operated by WEBBASED.SERVICE and have their own privacy policies. Please refer to their privacy policies for more information. Third Party Advertising WEBBASED.SERVICE may use third-party advertising companies to serve ads when you visit our Web site. These companies may use information (NOT including your name, address, email address or telephone number) about your visits to this and other Web sites in order to provide advertisements on this site and other sites about goods and services that may be of interest to you. If you would like more information about this practice and to know your choices about not having this information used by these companies, please visit http://www.networkadvertising.org/optout_nonppii.asp Third Party Cookies In the course of serving advertisements to this site, our third-party advertiser may place or recognize a unique "cookie" on your browser. USERS UNDER THE AGE OF 13 Users under the age of 13 certify that they have parental consent to provide us with the information required on our application page. Users under 13 are not permitted access to our site without such prior parental consent.

Disclaimer: All comparisons on this page were created to the best of our ability to evaluate the products sold as as of 11/04. We welcome all corrections from the authors. Because some products were difficult to use or had little documentation we make no claims as to our evaluation being 100% perfect and welcome and will update valid corrections supplied by authors asap after verification.