Email Scanning
Once the webs killer application email is now struggling under continued abuse from virus writers and those unscrupulous companies whose spam is clogging up the mail boxes with unwanted and often inappropriate offers. It is time to fight back and take control. We offer spam and virus detection, filtering and removal systems on our servers that are continually updated and honed to catch and remove these scourges before they reach your inbox.
Spam Filtering
We use Spam Assassin to filter out all those junk messages the spammers like to send through. Spam Assassin is a complex opensource program that is developed by a large and committed base of programmers world wide.
The spam-identification tactics used include:
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header analysis: spammers use a number of tricks to mask their identities, fool you into thinking they've sent a valid mail, or fool you into thinking you must have subscribed at some stage. SpamAssassin tries to spot these.
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text analysis: again, spam mails often have a characteristic style (to put it politely), and some characteristic disclaimers and CYA text. SpamAssassin can spot these, too.
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blacklists: SpamAssassin supports many useful existing blacklists, such as mail-abuse.org, ordb.org or others.
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Razor: Vipul's Razor is a collaborative spam-tracking database, which works by taking a signature of spam messages. Since spam typically operates by sending an identical message to hundreds of people, Razor short-circuits this by allowing the first person to receive a spam to add it to the database -- at which point everyone else will automatically block it.
Virus detection
We stop emails that contain a virus dead in thier tracks so that they will not get through to your computer. The software we use detects of over 20000 viruses, worms and trojans and detection defintions for new ones are being added continually.
