With the increasing number of unwanted "SPAM" emails, selling everything from low-rate mortgages to potions that alter your bodily dimensions, Internet users are increasingly lost in a sea of unwanted email - losing the important messages amidst those of no value at all. At the worst, you spend most of the day looking at each message and selectively deleting each message. Some message programs (such as Outlook/Outlook Express, Netscape, and Eudora) have some filtering capabilities that let you automatically dispose of unwanted messages after they have been downloaded from the server. These "client-based" programs, however, don't avoid the time it takes to download the increasing mass of junk mail. (In fact, statistics show that more than 98% of mail on the Internet can now be called "SPAM", or unsolicited commercial email.)

Scrubbit scans each message before it goes into your mailbox, and either adds it to the mailbox or places it in a "rejected" folder. The decision to reject a message is based on a set of rules that you supply.

By separating the "wheat" from the "chaff", Scrubbit saves download time and assists in filtering unwanted messages that take time examine and delete.