bobquasit | Spam Spam Spam Spam and McAfee

Between 10PM last night and 9:12 AM this morning I received 87 emails. Of those, 84 were spam, and the remaining three were from mailing lists that I don't read that often. Am I the only one who'd like to see spammers heads' being used as pinatas?

I finally got a letter from Major General Franklin Kirby (i.e. the senior McAfee tech), which explained the ten-day silence: he was trying to find a SpamKiller expert to help me. He apparently hasn't found one yet. It has taken more than ten days for McAfee to locate an expert on their own software.

But then, my (unfortunately too late) research turned up that SpamKiller was NOT originally a McAfee program; they bought it, but apparently they don't support it very well. And by all accounts SpamKiller uses an inferior methodology. It has junked quite a few valid emails, and let a lot of bad ones through.

Okay. SpamKiller sucks, and if I'd done a little research beforehand I'd have saved my money and tried something like Popfile or Spambayes. I may still try them, actually, assuming I'm able to uninstall SpamKiller without also uninstalling the antivirus program.

But now more than ever I'm planning to let my entire McAfee subscription lapse next year and switch to Norton Antivirus and a Bayesian spam filter.

Spam Spam Spam Spam and McAfee

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