While the suite as a whole has been streamlined and improved, the optional add-on pack seems to have been gathering dust on a shelf somewhere. I couldn't find any visible change in the antispam, parental control, and privacy control features since .
The antispam module integrates nicely with Outlook and Outlook Express. It's smart enough to import your address book into its whitelist, so messages from your existing correspondents will never be blocked. It can also automatically whitelist any address to which you send mail and whitelist the sender when you mark a message as not spam. And believe me, you'll need a fully populated whitelist to protect your valid mail from the spam filter's depredations. Panda erred in the opposite direction, blocking hardly any valid mail but letting more than half the undeniable spam into the Inbox. BitDefender hit the sweet spot—it blocked no valid mail from individuals, blocked almost new newsletters, and diverted 80 percent of the spam into its Spam folder.
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