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Webwasher Taps Mailshell
To Fight Spam - SpamCatcher Engine Integrated Into WebWasher®
CSM Products
Paderborn, Germany, and San Francisco,
CA, USA - April 9th, 2003 - Webwasher, a leading provider
of Internet Content Security Software, and Mailshell,
creator of SpamCatcher, the easiest and most accurate
anti-spam engine, today announced plans to join forces
to fight spam at the enterprise gateway. Webwasher will
integrate Mailshell's SpamCatcher engine into its SpamEquator™
- the multi-method anti-spam module available with WebWasher®
Content Security Management (CSM) products for the enterprise.
SpamCatcher's combined rules- and database-driven approach
complements the existing anti-spam methods available
with WebWasher® CSM products. The WebWasher®
CSM products featuring the SpamCatcher engine will be
available in May.
With Mailshell's SpamCatcher, webwasher
adds a powerful and proven technology to its optional
SpamEquator™ module. As a core component of the
WebWasher® CSM Suite and WebWasher® PG (Protected
Gateway) products, SpamEquator™ already harnesses
the strengths of a number of database and rule-driven
methods through its MethodMi™ technology. Existing
anti-spam methods include Bayesian filters, rule lists,
and WebWasher's DynaBLocator™ URL database, that
enables sender domain and URL based spam detection.
With the integration of Mailshell's SpamCatcher, WebWasher
now provides a high-performance technology that protects
corporate networks from 90 to 99 percent of all spam,
while delivering valid messages and saving employees
and companies the time and expense wasted on unwanted
e-mails.
SpamCatcher uses more than a thousand
spam-blocking rules, including pattern matches, heuristic
functions, and proprietary and third-party databases.
Complex algorithms are applied to compute the probability
that each piece of e-mail is spam. SpamCatcher also
creates a fingerprint ID for every e-mail message and
uses it to continuously analyze new spam, create new
rules and adjust the weighting of existing rules. Since
spam constantly evolves, customers can opt to receive
scheduled or real-time rules updates without interrupting
message delivery. Webwasher customers will have full
administrative control of SpamCatcher features through
WebWasher's browser-based user interface.
Dr. Horst Joepen, CEO of webwasher: "Mailshell
is an ideal partner whose server-based solutions complement
WebWasher's ability to increase security, reduce network
load, and centralize enterprise IT management. With
the full integration of SpamCatcher, our SpamEquator™
module achieves a new dimension of spam detection accuracy
that was previously considered to be impossible. WebWasher®
CSM products now offer the industry's most extensive
control and security of enterprise Internet traffic,
while preserving the relevant information companies
need to do business."
"Webwasher's content security products
offer its customers superior accuracy and reliability,"
said Tonny Yu, president of Mailshell. "By using our
developers' tools to integrate the SpamCatcher engine
into its applications, WebWasher also now provides exceptional
spam-blocking technology within an existing security
suite that its customers already trust and value highly."
About Webwasher
Webwasher AG is one of the leading providers of Internet
security solutions for companies and public institutions.
On the basis of their own technology developments as
well as by cooperating with leading technology partners,
the company develops and markets innovative products
for the growing Content Security Management market.
With Internet Access Management, Internet Content Filtering,
E-mail and Spam Filtering, Virus Protection and Reporting,
companies can optimize their Internet usage and protect
themselves effectively and efficiently from threats
and annoyances arising from the Internet. The server-based
WebWasher solutions are deployed by over 4,000 companies
worldwide - among them 17 US Fortune 500 companies.
Webwasher has established strategic partnerships with
Network Appliance, Check Point, Computer Associates,
and Network Associates. For more information please
visit http://www.webwasher.com.
About Mailshell
Mailshell is the creator of SpamCatcher, the easiest
solution to spam. The company's products include anti-spam
software developers' tools and a suite of enterprise
and personal anti-spam products. Mailshell recently
earned an "Editor's Choice" award in PC Magazine's review
of spam filters, and has been dubbed "priceless" by
Forbes magazine, "excellent" by the Associated Press
and "easy to use" by CNET. Mailshell is based in Santa
Clara, CA, with an additional office in San Francisco.
For more information visit http://www.mailshell.com.
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Contact:
Frances Schlosstein, Webwasher USA, (800) 305-4986,
frances.schlosstein@webwasher.com
Berni L–rwald, Webwasher AG, 49 (0) 52 51, berni.loerwald@webwasher.com
Stefan Pollack, The Pollack PR Marketing Group,
(310) 556-4443, spollack@ppmgcorp.com
