Easy Email's virus/spam filtering successes
09-09-2004

During the last month we have prevented over 5,000 spam email variants and over 10 virus variants from reaching our user's inboxes. Some of the virus variants include the "Some Fool" virus and several trojan variants.

Easy Email, a brand of Easy Web Hosting, believe that our users should receive only authentic emails. Our systems filter out viruses and spam at the server, so you don't have to bother with additional software on your PC.

How we detect spam emails:
Easy Email Spam Filtering gathers real-time Spam intelligence from a number of sources, and then actively using this intelligence to block unwanted email. Easy Email tracks tens of thousands of live Spam email characteristics (“DNA”), which by itself identify 85% of all Spam. In addition, approximately 25 third-party Spam databases, several DNS checks, and several message-formatting tests are used when analyzing each email.

In all, approximately 45 constantly evolving tests are performed on every email that enters the system. The results of these tests are combined using a methodical weighting system that successfully identifies over 95% of Spam.

How we detect viruses:
Emails received by our servers pass through a 4 stage checking process. To date, not a single infected email is known to have made it through successfully. Even newborn viruses that have not yet been added to the virus definitions get stopped at the door. For example, when the “Bugbear” virus outbreak began, the Easy Email system was blocking this virus at Stage 1 as an “email vulnerability” well before the virus definition files were released that included detection of this new virus.

Choose Easy Email for a spam and virus free inbox - something we should all have.

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