Below you will find side-by-side comparisons of the top spam filtering products. You can click through to read detailed reviews of the products (more coming in the following weeks), or simply scroll through to the end of this page to see more summarized reviews.

Excellent Very Good Good Fair Poor Beware! Rank      4 5 6 7 8 Overall Rating   Protects Against Spam   Feature Set   Ease-of-use   Speed   Installation   Price $19.99 BUY NOW $24.95 BUY NOW $29.99 BUY NOW $39.95 BUY NOW $39.95 BUY NOW $29.95 BUY NOW $24.95 BUY NOW $29.95 BUY NOW   Review Read Review Read Review Read Review  Read Review Read Review Read Review  Read Review Read Review   Overall Effectivness Blocks Spam   Percentage of Spam Blocked 98% 92% 72% 82% 82% 42% 53% 26%   Doesn't Block Legitimate Email           Blacklist / Whitelist Block Email Address       Block Server             Public Blacklist Support              Allow Email Address     Allow Server             Rules Customization           Pre-defined rules       Multiple-rule selection            Other Features Quarantine           Sensitivity Settings                 Individual User Profiles                  Reporting Capabilities               Block Graphics in email         Import Address book   Automatic Upgrades     Abuse Reporting               Supported Environments POP   Outlook   Outlook Express   Eudora   AOL   Yahoo   Earthlink   Rank 4 5 6 7 8

More Quick Reviews

SpamKiller filtered almost all spam (92% blocked) and has many additional useful features not found in most products. It is a little more expensive than Spam Inspector and the purchase price only includes a one-year subscription, but we found it to be the best alternative.

EmailProtect provides better filtering (stopped 72% of spam) than most products. It has a tendency to block opt-in newsletters, but overall it's a very good product.

Matador  stopped most of the spam (82%)that we tested with. However, we ranked it lower because it was lacking in featires and was higher priced than other more effective products.

SpamNet  also provides good protection (82%), but not perfect. It lacks any additional features beyond spam filtering and it is higher priced than our top picks.

 

Spam Butcher provided below average protection against spam (42%) and blocked a lot of legitimate email. It is a light on features and higher priced than other more effective products.

 

Spam Eater Pro provided average protection against spam (53%), scored poorly for usability, and was among the slowest of the products we tested. For a few dollars more, you are better off with one of our top picks.

Qurb provided poor protection against spam (26%) and tended to quarantine legitimate email from senders we didn’t explicitly put in our approved senders list. It gave us the worst results of all the products we tested.