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G-Lock SpamCombat kills 99.5% of spam and viruses before they even get to the Inbox. In fact, the program does not even download unwanted correspondence by deleting it on the server directly. To achieve this astonishing efficiency and accuracy, G-Lock SpamCombat uses all known anti-spam measures - Whitelist, Blacklist, HTML Validator, DNSBL filter, and the Bayesian filter. G-Lock SpamCombat is e-mail client independent, supports POP3 and IMAP, and can be configured to work with popular web-based e-mail services, like Hotmail and Yahoo. AOL users can use it as well. The price of registering the program is 35 US Dollars. The trial version is available as well. While the trial version works with one e-mail account only, it never expires and has no other functional limitations. G-Lock SpamCombat features and benefits:•Self learning. SpamCombat learns from the spam and good email you receive to provide you with great precision and accuracy in solving your spam problem.•Deletion of unwanted emails without downloading them into your inbox. You can preview the message in a quite safe and secure mode to decide if you want to delete this email or keep it. A great way to stop viruses, tracking codes, and large attachments.•Whitelist. Add known sources, from which you receive legitimate emails to the Whitelist and these emails will be always recognized as good.•Blacklist. Solid SpamCombat Blacklist provides you with the efficient way to stop most common types of spam and virus emails. You are also able to add your own items to the Blacklist.•Filtering. Can simultaneously filter emails from multiple email accounts and automatically delete spam so you will not even see it on the screen.•Automatic mode. Can check mail at different time intervals.•Recovering emails. If you accidentally deleted a good message, SpamCombat provides you the ability to recover it from the trash for further receiving with your email client.•Statistics. Shows you the statistics on processed messages in comprehensive tables in graphs.•Easy customizable interface. You can customize the menus, toolbars, grids and message preview screen as you want: add/remove buttons and options from the toolbars and menus, show/hide columns within the grids, and choose the format of the message preview screen by yourself.•Simplicity. In spite of its sophisticated interface, SpamCombat is easy to use and doesn't require you to be a very experienced user. You just check your mail, mark unwanted messages for deletion and let SpamCombat delete them from the server.•Economy. Saves your bandwidth and money by cutting down unproductive email traffic.•Other features: E-mail client independence. Can work minimized to the system tray. Plays a sound when a new email arrives, or notifies you visually. Comprehensive Help documentation provided with software.

Everyone who works in technical support knows the feeling of dread when someone asks what they do for a living, only for an immediate response of "Oh my PC has been running slowly recently, any ideas?". This book is meant for those people who don't know their worms from their trojans, and who've been having a strange problem where they click on a link to one page, but end up at another.
It starts with the simplest but most important step on cleaning up your PC, sorting out your email client. With dozens or hundreds of viruses and spam emails arriving every day, you need a good email program, and Degunking takes you through the various choices from Web-based email from Yahoo or Hotmail, Outlook Express, Outlook, to Mozilla Thunderbird. It gives an excellent chart listing the capabilities of the main email clients, letting you easily choose which matches your requirements, from ease of use, spam protection, HTML support, and so on.
Degunking also provides lots of useful tips on using email, such as deleting everything not required to keep your email client running quicker, using notifiers to prioritise emails, and sorting emails into folders. It also explains the differences between POP3 and IMAP email, and gives some suggestions for how to access email on the move.
Next the book moves onto avoiding spam, giving lots of information and advice on dealing with spam, how to avoid it, and how to get rid of it if you already receive it. It starts by recommending the installation of the free open source program PopTray, which acts as a mail proxy on your local PC, filtering out spam before it arrives in your inbox. It then moves onto helping you to build filtering rules to allow through the mails you want, and to discard the ones you don’t. Helpfully, it provides screenshots from various email clients on how to do this, not just for Outlook Express.
It then moves onto training a spam filter using the new Bayesian learning technique, where rather than running self-written rules, you simply tell your email client as mails arrive that an item is spam or not. The client should quickly learn and start to automatically filtering correctly.
Dunking also discussing the less successful methods of spam filtering, and where the future might be, such as peer-to-peer spam filtering.
We then move onto the final section of the book, dealing with viruses, trojans, worms and spyware. The book provides a simple explanation of the various types of malicious software you can get on your PC if you're not careful, and then deals with cleaning up and avoiding each one in turn.
It gives an excellent explanation of dealing with each one, such as disabling Microsoft Office macros if you never use them, and installing a hardware firewall to stop worms. It then goes onto recommend some good anti-virus programs. The book then moves onto the spyware side of computer problems, and goes through various sensible Internet Explorer settings, and installing Mozilla Firefox as a replacement browser. Next, it explains the functions of firewalls and the various kinds available.
Chapter 15 is slightly out of place in that it deals with phishing, the practice of setting up fake websites and trying to entice users to enter their username and password, or by sending hoax emails. The chapter itself is excellent, but perhaps it should be nearer the front, especially with the current surge in phishing.
The final chapter is dealing with the aftermath of a malware attack, talking users through the steps of cleaning up an infected PC, and preventing it happening again.
Overall, this is an excellent book for non-technical people, providing them with both a set of tasks to go through to clean up their PC, and also a reference for if they ever have a problem with their PC that they think might be caused by an email they received or webpage they visited. It will never completely replace the phone calls to parents, friends, or neighbours who you know work in computers, but it will definitely help cut down on them.

Since 2001, Cloudmark has been leading the effort to protect consumers, businesses and service providers in the fight against spam and phishing attacks. At the core of Cloudmark's approach is a unique technology which leverages sophisticated technology and millions of experienced end users to identify and shut down new attacks instantly before they spread. This provides what no other vendor can offer -- the ability to continuously protect against threats while automatically adapting in real-time. And by leveraging this trusted data from the world's largest anti-spam and fraud-fighting community, Cloudmark preserves the security and productivity of email and the Internet by enabling its customers to block over 99% of spam and phishing attacks while achieving the industry's lowest false positive rate.
"Cloudmark is honored to have won not one, but two PC World World Class awards," said Gary Iwatani, president and COO of Cloudmark. "These awards are a testament to our unique approach to messaging security as well as our commitment to delivering the most effective, easy-to-use solution for our customers seeking relief from messaging security threats."
Cloudmark SafetyBar is Cloudmark's award-winning desktop toolbar for protection against email-based threats such as spam, phishing and fraud. SafetyBar is easy to install into Microsoft Outlook or Outlook Express email clients, and is the only solution to achieve zero false positives in industry reviews. In addition to email protection, Cloudmark brings safety to navigating the Internet with its Anti-Fraud Toolbar for Internet Explorer. The Cloudmark Anti-Fraud Toolbar warns users of known fraudulent and phishing web sites before the user is exposed to the potential dangers of identity theft or phishing attacks as well as the risks of being infected by Internet-based viruses, spyware and worms. Both products are available via a simple download from http://www.cloudmark.com/products/safetybar/download/ .
Celebrating its 23rd year, the respected World Class Awards honor products that meld practical features with innovation and reflect the rapidly changing technology marketplace. To select the winners, PC World's editors examined hundreds of products, including those that have appeared in the magazine over the past 12 months. The winning products were selected for their exemplary design and usability, features, performance, innovation, and price.
"The ultimate buyers guide, World Class Awards set the standard for excellence in the high-tech and consumer electronics industries," stated Harry McCracken, editor-in-chief of PC World. "From desktop publishers to travel routers to satellite radio and video instant messenger services, the editors reward the finest products and most outstanding performers in this annual award program. Congratulations to Cloudmark."