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Remember 1990, when practically nobody knew about e-mail? Nowadays, you probably check several e-mail addresses every day. The most annoying thing about e-mail for many Web users is the awful spam that frequently clogs their inboxes. How do you eliminate spam and other fraudulent emails? The answer is simple: You need an effective spam filter. Comparison is our name and spam filter (Mac, PC and even Linux) is our game. In this brief guide, we look at two important anti spam programs. Visit each program's website to find out which anti spam (Microsoft would be proud) is right for you. SafetyBar does a great job of filtering out spam. It also places legitimate emails where they belong - in your inbox. Many anti spam programs mark some legitimate emails as "false positives," calling them spam. However, you're not dumb, and you know when your friend is emailing you versus a random website. SafetyBar uses a community approach to filter out spam. Whenever you report a spam message, SafetyBar adds the sender to a blacklist so that other SafetyBar users don't get any spam from that email address. That way, you won't need to spend all day telling SafetyBar about all the spam you've ever gotten. If other users think an email is spam, you won't get it in your inbox. The only drawback to SafetyBar is its $40 annual price tag. Qurb is another anti spam program. Qurb only allows email from your whitelist (addresses you say are acceptable). All other emails go into the spam folder. If your business is still small, Qurb might be the best choice, since it identifies everything as spam unless you tell it otherwise. After the $30 registration fee, you won't have to spend another dime to update the program.
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