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| LinuxForce Releases Version 3.0 of Anti-Spam, Anti-Virus Service In the face of the continuing onslaught of spam, virus and worm attacks, LinuxForce, Inc. has announced the release of LinuxForceMail, version 3.0, and not a moment too soon considering the latest spam statistics. According to the Web research site, Top Ten Reviews, based on statistics derived from a number of reputable sources including: Google, Brightmail, Jupiter Research, eMarketer, Gartner, MailShell, Harris Interactive, and Ferris Research, spam continues to increase. The site estimates that spam will increase by 63% by 2007. Currently, 40% of all email is considered spam. The cost to all U.S. corporations is nearly $10 billion. LinuxForceMail, version 3.0 contains numerous enhancements to the LinuxForceMail 2.0 series including considerable improvements to the SMTP- time anti-spam configuration, ensuring that suspicious e-mails are either deferred or rejected before any Internet bandwidth, CPU, or disk is expended with content filtering. The LinuxForceMail service includes service monitoring, a host-based firewall, security upgrades, investigation of anomalies, continual updating of the comprehensive aggressive SMTP-time hygiene rules, continual updating of the open-source ClamAV (anti-virus) and Spamassassin (content filtering) rules, regular reporting of statistics, proactive maintenance, and support to free organizations' IT staff to focus on more pressing, mission-critical work. LinuxForceMail users such as CrafTech Computer Solutions and The Franklin Institute Science Museum have experienced the power of the solution first-hand and many others consider it indispensable. write your comments about the article :: © 2006 Computing News :: home page |