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Don't You Just Hate Spam?

Spam

Do you think that Spam is freedom of speech? For some it is a small nuisance. But this nuisance is increasing to the place where it is costing many people precious time and money. The unwanted intrusion is an affront to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. It is also morally degrading. It is a corrupting influence. Last year Spam cost businesses an average of $874 per employee in lost productivity according to Nucleus Research Inc. The effect that it has on our liberties is far higher. It seems to invade us at every turn. It wears us down, influences what we do, and generally is changing our lifestyles. I have tried different anti-spam programs. Does anyone have something that really works?

What is spam?

Spam, also known as Unsolicited Commercial Email (UCE), Unsolicited Bulk Mail (UBM), junk mail and irrelevant Newsgroup cross-posting - the list goes on – has many different definitions, none of which are ever completely accurate. According to MAPS, (Mail Abuse Prevention Systems), the definition of spam is: 

An electronic message is "spam" IF:

(1) the recipient's personal identity and context are irrelevant because the message is equally applicable to many other potential recipients; AND

(2) the recipient has not verifiably granted deliberate, explicit, and still-revocable permission for it to be sent; AND

(3) the transmission and reception of the message appears to the recipient to give a disproportionate benefit to the sender. 

To the rest of us spam is the annoying, sometimes illegal, often offensive email that makes its way into our inboxes without us asking for it. It consumes our time, our disk-space and our bandwidth indiscriminately and has become one of the major headaches of the Internet Age. The first known spam was purportedly sent way back in 1978 by a Digital Equipment Corp. sales representative, vaunting the release of the new DEC-20, sending an invitation to all ARPANET addresses on the West coast. Of course, no-one called it spam back then. 

The types of spam are many and varied, from the infamous ‘Nigerian Money Scam’, through a huge number of advertisements from pornographic websites to septic tank cleansing and on to the more sophisticated ‘phishing’ techniques, designed to entice unwitting users to enter bank details and other personal information. 

Introducing the Solution you have been waiting for:

NetCleanse protects your mail by stopping spam and viruses before they come to your computer. Removing spam at the perimeter or through a hosted service also reduces network traffic and storage requirements for unwanted messages. Our Linux-based service is updated by security experts automatically, ensuring 24-hour protection for your business.

Use Netcleanse to fight spam - Many software packages are available on the market to help you combat spam; but not all are incisive enough in dealing with spam.

NetCleanse is a single solution for protection from viruses and spam that promises to eliminate computer vulnerabilities. The dual-protection system is easy to install and works 24 hours a day to protect against the annoyances of spam and the dangers of viruses. To identify spam, the e-mail filter analyzes the header, subject and text of an e-mail. Once identified, the spam e-mail can be tagged and filtered to an internal mail server or quarantined. In addition, NetCleanse automatically updates the spam filtration rules so that they can accurately identify spam. To protect against viruses and other attacks, NetCleanse uses multiple anti-virus engines. By combining the many different theories and methods of anti-virus detection into one solution, NetCleanse's anti-virus protection is able to offer a high level of protection.

To order Netcleanse for your company today call
L&A Computer Services (773) 771-3454