MailFoundry Anti-spam
Central Virginia Datacomm, in partnership with Richweb, Inc., is pleased to announce the availability of our premier hosted anti-spam solution. This provides one of the best spam filtering products, the MailFoundry, featuring an extremely low false-positive rate, combined with a local presence and personnel you can actually talk to.
Spam rates have skyrocketed in just the last few months, and an Information Week article predicts spam will account for 90% of all E-mail traffic by the end of 2007.
Information Week Article 1
Information Week Article 2
Why should you be concerned about spam, aside from the annoyance factor?
Security Hazard
- For both your company and possibly for your employees personal information. The more that gets in the more the chance that damaging code will be unleashed on your network. Even with proper user training malicious mail will periodically be opened.
Wasted Bandwidth & Resources
- With the skyrocketing spam rates many smaller companies are receiving spam at the rate of well over one hundred thousand per week! Richweb has a client with a T1 that was so clogged that normal business critical traffic could often not be carried out unless the mail server was taken off-line. What are you paying per month for your Internet access? The percentage of your link clogged with spam is the percentage of your access fees getting wasted.
- If you’re filtering at the server or desktop, your mail server has to process tens or hundreds of thousands of useless E-mails with all the resource burdens that entails.
Lost Productivity
- Time wasted by network administrators dealing with spam related problems, time wasted by end users, and slower response of legitimate web traffic.
Even if using desktop spam filters, they don’t get the job done nearly as well as the MailFoundry. You can enjoy 95+% effectiveness, receive updates from the manufacturer every five minutes, and receive full reporting. Of course you get highly effective anti-virus protection as well. You can customize anti-spam and anti-virus parameters for your particular domain, and specify protected users.
Do you want your own box? Central Virginia Datacomm will gladly install and configure one at your site or Richweb’s data facilities. The advantage of a hosted solution or a co-located system of yours is that all that traffic is stopped before it ties up your Internet link. Stopping spam before it gets to your users keeps them from doing something regrettable that costs you time and money. Stopping it before it hits your server may well save you an expensive server upgrade.