Caretaker Antispam 1.9.5 is described as an excellent tool that filters out almost every spam and virus from your inbox. The constantly increasing amount of spam messages is a real problem. Every day you have to spend precious time cleaning your inbox manually. And the problem will only get worse in the future, because sending spam is cheap and simple. With just one click on a button, a spammer can reach hundreds of thousands of addresses. And no matter how low the response rate is, there are always people who will respond to an offer.

Caretaker Antispam combines a number of methods to distinguish spam messages from genuine messages. Each message receives a score by looking at certain features, for example the sender, contents, the make-up, etc. Based on this score, Caretaker Antispam decides if a message is to be delivered to your inbox or your spam folder.

Major Features:

1. Finds more spam than other built-in and external spam filters.
2. The multi-layer scoresystem of Caretaker Antispam evaluates every incoming e-mail message based on heuristics, statistical models, and innovative image analysis.
3. Analyses phrases - instead of single words - and thus identifies more spam than traditional text filters (Bayesian filters).
4. Identifies all image based spam, despite diffuse patterns, font size and colours.
5. Smart link analysis automatically detects spammy web pages on hacked legitimate websites, advertised in spam messages.
6. For up-to-the-minute detection Caretaker Antispam analyzes the distribution of spam versus legitimate email for the message recipients and calculates a receiver reputation for each based upon that distribution.
7. Identifies URL spam, Phishing emails, stitched images, Invisible ink, PDF spam, Excel spam, etc.
8. Detects potentially dangerous files by checking the contents of attachments.
9. Sending and receiving e-mails is a fast process, taking advantage of parallel programming techniques.
10. Provides your outgoing e-mail messages with a specific (indiscernible) stamp. Many ISP spam filters will trust your message with this stamp.
11. No need to maintain whitelists.
12. No conflicts with other existing spam filters and Caretaker Antispam can work as an extra filter.
13. Operates transparently, just as you expect it.
14. No need to configure anything.
15. No changes to server or account settings.
16. No toolbars or buttons.

Enhancements:

• Improved detection of zero-day malware.
• Improved detection of plain body spam messages.
• Improved intention analysis.
• Improved Bayesian-filter.
• Improved detection of bad html attachments.
• Improved detection of bad urls.
• Fixed a issue with received headers not parsed correctly.
• Fixed a incompatibility issue with Windows 2000.
• Several minor improvements.
• Updated Bayesian databases.

Requirements:

• Windows XP, Vista, 2000, 2003, 2008 and Windows 7.
• Works with POP3/SMTP mail programs including Office Outlook, Outlook Express, Windows Mail, Thunderbird, The Bat! and IncrediMail.