Research shows that 30% - 60% of all email that users receive is SPAM!! Not only is this lost productivity time from your employees (the average user spends 8 hrs/yr reading and deleting email at an average cost of $168.00/user/year), but also an increase of your Internet resources.
We have implemented 3 new SPAM and Virus blocking services to enhance our corporate email hosting for our clients:
Email Virus Blocker:
Emails with a .SCR, .PIF, .VBS or .EXE attachments will be killed instantly
This will eliminate a large portion of worm viruses from ever entering your mailbox
If you need to receive such a file from a TRUSTED contact, the attachment can be zipped first allowing them to pass through successfully
Email Spam Blocker:
This service will help filter over 50% of the SPAM received at the server level before ever reaching your email software
There is virtually no risk of lost emails – everything that should get through, will get through
“Enhanced” Spam Blocker:
This service will help filter 75% or more of the SPAM received at the server level before ever reaching your email software
Some risk of lost “legitimate” emails, however, the sender receives a “Bounced Message” notification telling them their message bounced because it is suspected SPAM
This allows the sender to modify the message, and resend it to pass through the SPAM filters
Features:
Email Virus Blocker *
Email Spam Blocker *
Enhanced Email Spam Blocker *
McAfee Spamkiller or equivalent
Removes known virus attachments (.exe/.pif/.scr/.vbs)
Yes
No
Yes
No
Spam reduced using global blacklists
No
Yes
Yes
No
Validation tests - ensures email from a legitimate email address and domain
No
Yes
Yes
No
Compares email against Netstart maintained White Lists
No
Yes
Yes
No
Phrase Filtering:compares against known Spam Phrases I.e. Viagara, Weight loss
No
No
Yes
Yes
Content of message analyzed to see if listed URL's are blacklisted
No
No
Yes
No
Content of message analyzed to see if links are true links or deceptive links (say one thing point somewhere else)
No
No
Yes
No
Statisical Filtering:analyzes against Spam and non-Spam features to determine likelihood of message being Spam
No
No
Yes
No
Spam email bounce message sent back to sender
No
No
Yes
No
Who maintains the service?
Netstart
Netstart
Netstart
user managed
Upgrades Costs??
Automatic by Netstart & included in monthly fee
Automatic by Netstart & included in monthly fee
Automatic by Netstart & included in monthly fee
Purchase of New software
* services are only available to companies with corporate emails hosted by Netstart
