SpamGrid

SpamGrid is a anti-spam solution based on a innovative approach towards filtering spam. For personal use, SpamGrid is free of any charge, and freely redistributable if no charge is applied for its redistribution.

It can be used on any Windows 9x, NT, XP or Vista system. A automatic integration is available for Microsoft Outlook Express (by default available on Windows based systems), and Microsoft Outlook,
much used in business enviroments. SpamGrid works acting as a so called Proxy-Server for POP3 protocol, meaning it can be used with ANY POP3 Mail client. More information on this can be found in SpamGrid Help.

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How does it work?

SpamGrid functions like a proxyserver, meaning that your e-mail client will connect to SpamGrid, which will in turn connect to your e-mail server. When e-mail messages are retrieved from the server, SpamGrid will send a non-reversable encoding of those e-mail messages to the SpamGrid server. The encoding is non reversable in order to protect the privacy of your messages.

By analysing those encodings, the server will determine whether the e-mail distribution is a mass e-mail distribution. Once a distribution has been characterized as a mass distribution, it's geographical distribution is analysed. According to these two factors, a message (and subsequent
messages of the same distribution) can be characterised as spam.

This implies that unlike with other spamfilters, normal, personal, e-mail messages can't be characterised as spam, since they don't conform any of the two neccesity rules. Also, newsletters comform to only one of the two rules, thereby making it possible for newsletters to pass the filter as well, while all spam is flagged as being spam.

This way SpamGrid protects your from unwanted mail while making sure the e-mail messages you do want arrive at their destination.

Note

SpamGrid was tested thoroughly and was found absolutely clean, therefore it can be installed with no concern by any computer user.However, it should be noted that this product will be retested periodically and the award may be withdrawn, so you should check back on this page from time to time.