| Feature | Spam Sleuth | Spam Assasin | Benefit |
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| 30-day money back guarantee |  | | Provides consumer confidence when purchasing a program and knowing that it really works. |
| Online ordering with Instant delivery | | | You can start eliminating spam now. |
| Bayesian Analysis | | | Uses statistical analysis of past e-mails to determine whether future e-mails are spam. The program learns what spam look like, similar to how your brain works. |
| Works with Outlook, Outlook Express, Eudora, The Bat, Pegasus, Netscape and many, many more. | | | Compatible with almost any e-mail program so it works with your favorite e-mail program. No need to switch e-mail programs. |
| Automatic Internet Updates | | | Keeps the program up-to-date with new data, new modules, and new spam detecting abilities to keep your InBox clean. |
| Challenge-Response (Turing Test) | | | Be more aggressive at marking messages as spam, because legitimate senders get a challenge request where they can go to a web site and enter a few letters to allow their message through. |
| EMail Stamps | | | Request small payment before accepting e-mail. Works automatically or manually. |
| Allows Friends through (whitelist) | | | Gives you the ability to override all spam checking for known e-mail addresses of friends, relatives and co-workers. |
| Blocks known spam by e-mail address (blacklist) | | | Lets you clean up your InBox by adding frequent e-mailers to the block list. |
| Bounce junk e-mail | | | Tricks the spammers by letting them know their e-mail was undeliverable. They remove you from their list and you get less spam. |
| Checks against real-time IP/DNS blacklists | | | Checks e-mails to see if they were sent by known spam servers. Eliminates spam from known sources and helps keep your InBox clean. |
| Checks for excessive recipients | | | Keep junk e-mail out by not accepting e-mail that was sent to dozens of people. |
| Checks for missing Reply address | | | If the sender doesn't want you to reply, the reply address may be blank possibly indicating spam. |
| Checks for valid recipient | | | Checks to make sure that the e-mail was sent to one of your e-mail addresses and not Homeowner, Potential Customer or some other vague name. Blocks spam that isn't sent directly to you. |
| Checks if 'From' and 'Reply To' differ | | | If these addresses differ it may indicate deception and could be spam. |
| Compresses spam holding box | | | Stores spam compressed in the temporary holding area to use as little disk space as possible, but still allow you to recover improperly tagged e-mail messages. |
| Dangerous attachment removal | | | Removes attachments that can be executed and often contain viruses. Will catch executable programs even before they have been identified as a virus. |
| Dictionary Test | | | Detects more spam by looking at the end of subjects and messages for fake words. |
| Drag and Drop | | | Easy to add Friends and Spammers with Drag and Drop from Outlook and Outlook Express |
| Eliminates spam instead of just sorting it | | | Keeps your e-mail program from getting burdened and overloaded with excessive junk e-mail |
| Encrypted profanity file | | | Hides the profanity data and data file from young innocent eyes. |
| Expandable with additional analyzers | | | The program can grow and adapt to new criteria or new e-mail threats. |
| Flags e-mail with dangerous attachments as spam | | | Flags e-mail with dangerous attachments, or any type of file as spam. Keeps dangerous attachments from being accidentally run on your computer. |
| Fuzzy logic or score based | | | The program can evaluate many criteria when deciding how to handle spam. |
| Hobbies and Interests checking | | | Allows e-mails that contain information useful to you. Allows e-mail that pertains to your interests. |
| HTML Volume analysis | | | Analyzes e-mail for excessive use of large fonts, bright colors and other spam-like characteristics. |
| Mail Record check | | | Checks to make sure there is a valid IP address to reply to if you decide to. Helps keep your InBox clean by rejecting e-mail that comes from spammers who don't want to be contacted by e-mail. |
| Multiple account support | | | Can clean spam from multiple POP3 accounts. |
| Optional audio indicator of spam | | | Lets you know audibly when the program had detected and removed spam. |
| POP3 support | | | Supports the industry standard POP3 accounts. |
| Profanity filter | | | Watches for profanity and flags e-mails with excessive profanity as spam |
| Quick clicks add friends to acceptable list | | | Quickly add your friends, relatives and co-workers to the acceptable list. |
| Quick clicks add spammer to reject list | | | Quickly add spammers to the block list so that you aren't bothered by them again. |
| Regular Expressions | | | Allows powerful searches of complex patterns in e-mail text to match just about anything. |
| Relay | | | Relay non-spam messages to another e-mail account for your PDA, phone, etc. Protect your important e-mail accounts and let Spam Sleuth remove the junk and relay the gems. |
| Removes dangerous script from HTML e-mails | | | Keeps dangerous e-mails from launching porn laden pages, or redirecting you to another site. |
| Removes External Images | | | Keeps you from automatically sending information back to the spammer. External Images can contain web-bugs that transmit your e-mail back to the spammer so they know you're looking at their junk e-mail. |
| Removes HTML formatting | | | Get just the meat of the message by removing font formatting and leaving just the text. |
| Removes HTML links | | | Keeps kids out of trouble by removing potentially hazardous HTML links they can click on. |
| Removes Internal Images | | | Can keep potentially pornographic images from being displayed in children's e-mail. |
| SMTP check | | | Checks to make sure there is a valid e-mail server available if you decide to reply. Helps keep your InBox clean by rejecting e-mail that comes from spammers who don't want to be contacted by e-mail. |
| Spam words checking | | | Keeps you from getting e-mail that contains excessive usage of words normally contained in spam such as free, viagra, prize, flat-hose, etc. |
| Stores spam for X days | | | Gives you a chance to get an e-mail back if it was incorrectly tagged as spam. |
| Subject analysis | | | Looks for spam indicators and removes e-mail that has spam-like subjects. |
| Supports Mailing Lists | | | Lets you add your favorite mailing lists to allow them to reach your InBox. |
| Supports wildcards blocking messages by e-mail address | | | Quickly add an entire company to the block list. |
| Wildcards for allowing friends | | | Eliminates the need to enter every e-mail address for co-workers. Just add *@mycompany.com to allow all e-mail from mycompany.com. |
| It is our intent to maintain an accurate comparison. The data may not be 100% accurate as feature lists come from product evaluations or publicly provided data sheets, and/or recent product revisions may alter the feature set. If the feature comparison is not accurate, please let us know at info@bluesquirrel.com. |
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