A collaborative spam filter
Spammers user thousands of computers to send spam mails, why should not thousands of users collaborate to combat spam more effectively? That's the major idea behind the collaborative spam filter that BullGuard has created.
The filter learns not only from your input, but also from community input which in turn improves the spam detection capabilities of the application.
It's like the system that is used by WordPress plugins like Spam Karma or Akismet. They have their own spam filters that filter out spam but also access blacklists and whitelists on the Internet that are created by a lot of users.
Bullgard Spamfilter integrates with Microsoft Outlook, Outlook Express and Thunderbird and requires a user account which can be created during setup (just enter a email address and password).
A huge advantage over tools like Spamihilator is the fact that you do not need to change the account settings, e.g. the mail server, in the email client that you are using, it works right out of the box.
One aspect that I personally do not like is that Bullguard adds a footer message to all mails that are sent from your account, saying:
I use BullGuard Spamfilter to keep my inbox clean.
It is completely free: www.bullguard.com/freespamfilter
This can't be unchecked in this version and is definitely a reason for me personally not to use it.
Update: BullGuard Spamfilter is no longer available as a free version. If you are looking for a free anti-spam software, check Spamihilator which we have linked above.
Update 2: And it is back as a free version that you can download from the official project website. The current version is BullGuard Spamfilter 10. You can download the latest version for all recent versions of Windows from the homepage.
Update 3: The product is no longer available separately. It appears to have been integrated into several commercial BullGuard applications such as BullGuard Premium Protection or BullGuard Internet Security.
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You said that Outlook isn’t your main email client, so which is your main one?
I think its thunderbird
It is Mozilla Thunderbird.
Awesome! This actually solved my problem… what a stupid bug.
If this is the same bug that I’ve encountered, there may be another fix: (1) hover over open Outlook item in Taskbar, cursor up to hover over Outlook window item, and right-click; (2) this should give you Restore / Move / Size / Minimize / Maximize — choose Move or Size; (3) use your cursor keys, going arbitrarily N/S/E/W, to try to move or size the Outlook window back into view. Basically, the app behaves as though it were open in a 0x0 window, or at a location that’s offscreen, and this will frequently work to resize and/or move the window. Don’t forget to close while resized/moved, so that Outlook remembers the size/position for next time.
THANK YOU Claude!!! I could get the main window to launch but could not get any other message window to show on the desktop. You are my hero!!!!
Solved my issue! 6 years later and this is still problem…
Fantastic. Thank you. Size did the trick.
This solved my Outlook problem, too. Thank you. :)
Thank you so much, this started happening to me today and was causing big problems. You are a life saver, I hope I can help you in some way some day.
You are a god – thank you!
thanks a lot…. work like charm.. :-)
Yah…thanks Claude. I’ve been having the same problem and tried all the suggestions…your solution was the answer. It had resized itself to a 0/0 box. Cheers
Excellent post. This had me baffled even trying to accurately describe the problem. This fixed it for me.
Thank you
Thanks a lot for the article. Don’t know why it happenend, don’t know how it got fixed, but it was really annoying and now it works :-)
Thanks a lot. I was facing this issue from past 3 week. I tried everything but no resolution. The issue was happening intermittently and mainly when I was changing the display of screen ( as i use 2 monitors). The only option i had was to do system restore. But thanks to you.
I’ve been tried to sole this problem for 12hours. Your comment about changing the display of screen helped me a lot!! Thanks!!
Thank you…don’t know why this happened but your instructions helped me fix it. Running Windows 10 and office pro 2007
Great tip! Thanks!
Worked for me, too – thank you!!!
It’s Worked for me, too
thank you very much!
I had a similar issue with Outlook 2013 on Windows 10 and this helped me to fix it. Thank you very much!
Thank you so much. Solved!
Considering you published this in 2012, incredible not been debugged by Microsoft.
Thank you again. M
This problem was faced by only one user logging to TS 2008 r2 using outlook 2010.The issue was resolved.
Thanks.
Great tip. Thank you!!!! If it helps, I had to use the Control Key and the arrow keys at the same time to bring my window back into view. Worked like a charm.
Thank you, this worked !!!!
Man, you are a fucking god. Thanks a lot, what an annoying bug!!
Awesome, this post solved the issue. Many thanks!