Panicware Says New SpamWasher Sends Unwanted E-Mail Down the Drain Fast Filtering, Near-Total Accuracy Eric Grevstad
Mon 8/11/03 -- Nobody likes spam (with a small s, that is; Hormel's capitalized pork product has been a tasty favorite since 1937). Now Panicware Inc., the company behind another advertising scourge, Pop-Up Stopper, has tackled the challenge of stopping unsolicited e-mail: The company says its new SpamWasher ($40, with an introductory-offer price of $30) accurately and quickly detects and blocks spam while allowing legitimate messages to pass through to any POP3 e-mail program (not AOL or MSN/Hotmail).
Panicware claims that SpamWasher not only downloads and filters mail up to four times faster than competing products, but that its patent-pending technology uses a unique rules-based system that doesn't oblige users to maintain lists of e-mail to block -- and that achieves 99-percent accuracy versus rival products' 40 to 70 percent.
