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At first look, you would call it a spam filter, but it is positioned as a ‘permission-based e-mail management system’. While that's a mouthful, ChoiceMail gives the user complete control over who he or she receives e-mails from and what type of e-mail is deemed acceptable. A differentiating factor from typical spam filters is that it offers both ‘whitelist’and ‘blacklist’ options, which means that you can set your POP e-mail program to bar entry of emails from blocked addresses (like most e-mail spam-blockers would do), as well as allow delivery of e-mail from approved whitelisted senders.

When in doubt as to the authenticity of a message from an unknown address, ChoiceMail’s secure challenge/response functionality lets you “bounce” e-mail back to senders for verification. On the downside, this freeware tags outgoing messages to indicate you use ChoiceMail Free (there’s hardly any freebie that doesn’t capitalize on such promotional opportunities!), and it can only be used on one POP3 account. Advanced users might want to upgrade to ChoiceMail One, which blocks spam to web-mail clients like AOL, Hotmail, MSN, and Yahoo also.

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Billed by its developer as the “Swiss Army Knife” and the ultimate survival kit for the Internet, the All-in-One Secretmaker features a dizzying array of capabilities designed to help Internet users retain absolute privacy and at the same time be secure. Pretty slim at a mere 1.27 MB, this freeware can be installed in Windows 98, Me, 2000 and XP operating systems to block spam, pop-ups, banners, spyware, and other harmful executables.

Secretmaker’s spam fighter works well with any POP3 e-mail client, and a fully automated whitelist feature allows user-specific optimizations. This tool continues to work even if you are offline, with added capabilities such cookie eraser (which prevents profiling) and history cleaner (to clear up unnecessary files, logs, and tracks). Install this powerful tool to boost overall system performance, speed up web surfing and of course, sooth frayed nerves.

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