MailWasher is among the leading spam filter software that is there and can help its users in getting rid of viruses, in addition to spam in their emails. This spam filter software provides excellent preview feature, which allows its users to decide the emails that they wish to download to their computers and ones that they want removed. Thus, users can effectively protect their computers from malicious emails that may intend to carry out virus or phishing attacks and other such nuisances.

The MailWasher spam filter software allows its users to view the subject and the sender of the emails that they receive, as well as, all the attachments so that they can decide whether to keep or remove them. Users can differentiate between regular and spam mails easily because this software color-codes the former as green and the latter as red. Users can the contact details of their friends to enable this software to recognize them or hide them to ensure that only the spam mails appear on its screen.

The MailWasher anti-spam software can use the Bayesian spam filtering technique to spot spam quickly and effectively, while also using the traditional method of identifying mails from blacklisted senders. However, the software provides a Recycle Bin that allows the users to recover mails that they might have deleted by mistake. Users can also schedule this software to check mails at different intervals or not check at all at certain times. It also provides notifications whenever new mails arrive. The inherent simplicity of this program, as well as, its wide array of features makes it the perfect choice for anti-spam uses.