MCleaner: The Best Solution Against SMS Spam?
By Rico, 7:07 am Tue Jul 7 2009 - Downloads - 1 Opinion
SMS spam has been a hot topic here, with numerous readers primarily complaining about the Handog Pangkabuhayan and Phil. Charity Foundation spam texts. Here seems to be the perfect way to block those kind of messages for good!
Over at Unwired View, David reviews what he calls his “latest favorite app for S60″: Simply put, MCleaner is a mobile firewall, allowing users to block calls and messages coming from specific numbers. Even better, it apparently puts the owner in complete control of combating SMS spam, with no need to rely on the NTC or operators.
In my experience, MCleaner was great. I never had any problems using it, and it always screened messages from those whom I did not want to receive messages from and threw them to the quarantine section with the lot. However, I found that MCleaner identifies numbers with the international standard (that includes country code and/or area code) and so even though my contacts were supposed to be on the White List, they kept appearing on the Black List because I had saved their numbers using the local format (i.e. 09214506479 instead of +639214506479). If you save your contact’s numbers using the international format, you should not encounter this hiccup.
Conclusion: In all, MCleaner is a worthy SMS/call black list app. It’s available as a free download with a limited trial and can be upgraded to the full version for an inexpensive amount. I have tried it once and was convinced: I don’t need anything else for the purpose that it serves.
You can get MCleaner for your S60 phone here. There’s also a version available for the iPhone. As David says, it’s a free download that works for 15 days, with purchase required for continuous use. At $12 as of this writing, I think it’s worth the price, and I plan to buy a copy soon.
Palaboy
4:04 pm Fri Jul 17 2009
Does it also work for blackberry 8320???