We did not perform any 'official' accuracy and performance testing on the products. For this roundup, we looked at each vendor's product based on common criteria such as installation, configuration, and administration. This review is more of a guide to the current state of play in the world of annoying spam e-mail. When evaluating anti-spam products don't forget to consider these three vendors also. Sophos on the other hand, while we would have loved to have squeezed them in somewhere with the other 11 products, unfortunately responded too late to get included in the review. Both Surfcontrol and Trend Micro are in the midst of changing their older applications over for newer/updated versions and were not currently in the position to submit. Since then the market has literally exploded - from four or five popular applications on the market last year to a submission of no less than 11 for this review.Īnd even still there were some notable names missing like Sophos, Surfcontrol, and Trend Micro. It has been over a year since we reviewed anti-spam offerings.īack in those days there were few enterprise-level solutions available to deal with this issue. Special report From server-level software, to appliances, to managed services, we find what solutions are available to help enterprises manage the onslaught of unsightly spam.
