Meryl's Notes Blog

The polls are open for the SC Awards, which focus on information security in various topics such as access control, anti-spam, anti-virus (AV), business continuity, and much more. Readers have the opportunity to vote in each product category and the top five receiving the most votes will move on to the next level.

I took a look at the anti-spam list and I’m not impressed. A few of the listed programs especially Mailmarshall and Mailsweeper have TERRIBLE filtering systems. As a person who does newsletters, I see what gets bounced back and these programs are off the mark. I regretted purchasing Spamkiller after a few months of use. Oh sure, I did the trial period and it was fine during then, but it got worse later.

I know who is NOT getting my vote on anti-virus. Hints: 1, 2, 3, 4

These awards are going to be a challenge on which to vote because these aren’t the type of products where you’ll try a bunch of different ones before picking one. I’ll just be voting in a handful of categories.