About AntiSpam Personal

AntiSpam Personal is the no nonsense, no compromise solution to stopping unsolicited email from cluttering your inbox. AntiSpam Personal uses what is called a White-list or Challenge and Response technique to stop emails from forged or invalid email addresses from reaching your inbox. It works with all email programs that access standard POP3 email servers: Outlook, Outlook Express, Eudora, etc.

"I made this program so easy to use that my grandparent's, the ultimate computer novices, can use it... and do. I wanted them to be able to use the Internet without having to deal with the deluge of email scams and random email virus attacks that seem to plague the Internet."
- Brian Adams, Principle Architect of AntiSpam Personal

How does it work?

AntiSpam keeps a list of all email addresses you correspond with. Any email from a source not in that list of familiar email addresses is sent a verification email to verify the email is from a legitimate email user. Since 90% of spam is sent from bogus or unmonitored email addresses these emails will never be verified and will be automatically deleted from your email server by AntiSpam.

When AntiSpam detects new email on your email server from an unfamiliar email address the AntiSpam icon in your task bar will turn green.  AntiSpam waits 10 minutes before processing those emails.  This delay is intended to give you an opportunity to send an email you may have been expecting directly to your inbox rather than let AntiSpam process it.  After 10 minutes, AntiSpam will send out verification emails to all unfamiliar addresses and move those emails to the emails awaiting verification window.  Messages awaiting verification will stay in that state until either the original sender verifies their email address, AntiSpam receives verification that the originating address was faked, or 72 hours have passed with no response.  After 72 hours, AntiSpam assumes that the originating email address was sent from an unmonitored account and will delete the email as Spam.  Anytime during that 72 hour and 10 minute process, you can list the emails being held and if you want, you can release them to go to your inbox.

Important Notes:

• If you use a program to check for new email on your email server, that program will notify you of not just normal emails, but also about bounced emails that AntiSpam is using to verify email addresses.  If this annoys you then we recommend just using AntiSpam's built in notification system instead (AntiSpam's icon in the notification tray turns green when you have new emails).