Unsolicited commercial e-mail (a.k.a. spam) accounts for over 70% of all U.S. email. Worse, about 1% of all messages contain a virus. These preventable threats cost organizations billions of dollars every year. A recent study determined that the cost to remove a virus from one PC is over $600 and removing a virus infection from a server costs over $50,000.
Our MailScanner Filter scans all e-mail essages for viruses, spam and attacks against security vulnerabilities. It uses a combination of 14 different virus scanners to:
Our virus scanners are automatically updated every hour. The MailScanner Filter is a widely-used open source e-mail security system, with more users than AOL and Hotmail combined processing over 500 million e-mail messages every day, at 20,000 sites around the world including government departments, commercial corporations and educational institutions.