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Lockspam Free 3.0 Released!
6 August, 2004: Polesoft Inc., home of Professional anti spam software, announced today that Lockspam Free 3.0 (see also Lockspam Pro 3.0 in the end) is now available. Some features of Lockspam Free 3.0 antispam software: 1. Function with Most POP3 Mail Clients Lockspam Free 3.0 can work with mail clients like Microsoft Outlook, Outlook Express, Eudora, Incredimail, Mozilla, Pegasus Mail, The Bat!, Foxmail, i.Scribe and many other mail clients. 2. Support Multi-User Mode Lockspam also support multi-user OS, like Windows XP, install once, works for all. 3. Apply Advanced Filtering Rules Lockspam Free 3.0 has a 6-step filtering process for probable spam messages. Allowed List > Allowed Keywords > Blocked List > Blocked Keywords > Polesoft Security Pack > heuristic Polesoft Anti-spam Engine. a) User definable Allowed/Blocked Keywords In addition to the sophisticated lists contained in Lockspam Free 3.0 and updated daily. b) Polesoft Security Pack More and more emails contain viruses. To combat this growing problem Polesoft have made available the Security Pack. The Security Pack contains pattern files of recent virus attachments and those scanned by Anti-Virus products. If any attachment matches the pattern files the message is regarded as spam and sent to the Polesoft Antispam folder. c) Polesoft Antispam Engine Polesoft Antispam Engine is based on Bayesian filtering and heuristically learns users' preferences and follows their logic in differentiating spam and normal mails. Polesoft Behavior Pattern Recognition* and Polesoft Beneficiary Black List (BBL)* are core technologies that can be applied and updated only wth registered copy of Lockspam Pro. 4. Automatically Scan Incoming Mails Lockspam Free 3.0 starts to work and deals with incoming mails automatically. 5. Automatically Import Contact Lists Right after installation, Lockspam Import Wizard will fetch all your contact lists from Microsoft Outlook and Outlook Express. 6. Automatically Check for Updates Lockspam will check for updates automatically, thus ensuring your mail box is equipped against the latest spam. 7. Free and Frequent Updates For Free users, updates for these services are available: a) Polesoft Security Pack, which can easily spot and quarantine virus spam. b) Polesoft heuristic Anti-spam Engine. For Lockspam Pro users, there are two more available: a) Daily updated Beneficiary Black List (BBL). b) New Add-in Installation Packages for Outlook and Outlook Express 8. Weed Out Spam in East Asian Languages Polesoft Anti-spam Engine can easily analyse the content of emails in East Asian languages, as well as English. 9. Training Lockspam Is Easy Lockspam is easy to teach. By Blocking spam and Unblocking innocent mails, Lockspam will learn your preferences and judge mails in line with your logic. 10. Looking for Probable Spam Is Easy a) Emails identified as spam are stored in the delete folder. b) Emails identified as probable spam are stored in the Polesoft Antispam folder with [Polesoft Antispam] added to the subject line. Lockspam Free 3.0 is available in a full featured 14 day evaluation version from the Polesoft site. To learn more about the differences between Lockspam Free version and Lockspam Pro version, please visit Lockspam Version Comparisons http://www.polesoft.com/product_lockspam37.html . To summarize, Lockspam Free Version 3.0 answers the urgent need for safe anti spam software on the desktop. Lockspam Free 3.0 can update to Lockspam Pro 3.0 ($29.95) and will continue to receive free updates for the lifetime of the product ensuring that your mailbox is always safe from spam. The CEO of Polesoft, Lytton Liou said, "We hope our patent-pending technology will help to bring back the ease freedom of communicating through the internet without the irritation and timewasting caused by the spammers". Safety should be the key ingredient regarding spam issue. Polesoft, your safe antispam way.
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