Press Releases
Mailshell Beats the
Competition in Review of Spam Fighters by Leading Consumer
Reporting Magazine
Editors Cite "Easy Installation and Ease of Use
are Paramount"
SANTA CLARA, CA - August 1, 2003 - Mailshell,
the OEM anti-spam leader, beat Symantec™, McAfee®
and other commercial anti-spam providers in head-to-head
tests conducted by the leading consumer reporting magazine
for its August issue. Mailshell's SpamCatcher Desktop
was also recently named "the experts choice" by the
Sunday Herald in the U.K., and earned an Editors' Choice
award earlier this year from PC Magazine. Mailshell
software is deployed at more than 350 companies and
organizations and by thousands of paying consumers worldwide
- The consumer reporting magazine's editors recommended
Mailshell for people for whom "easy installation and
ease of use are paramount." The test results were
featured by major media including NBC's The TODAY
Show, CBS This Morning, and dozens of newspapers nationwide
- The Sunday Herald (U.K.) indicated that Mailshell
shows 98% spam-catching accuracy and is, "emerging
triumphant as the experts' popular choice."
- PC Magazine's test results indicated that Mailshell
software "generated the fewest false positives of
any Windows product we tested."
SpamCatcher Universal lets users personalize
and adjust the filter strength to ensure maximum accuracy
and reliability. Once downloaded, the desktop software
product works with Microsoft Outlook, Outlook Express,
Eudora and virtually all POP mail client software.
All Mailshell products are based on Mailshell's
engine, the leading OEM anti-spam solution. Mailshell
deploys the engine as a software developers kit, and
in a series enterprise anti-spam products and personal
anti-spam products.
"Mailshell's engine lets consumers enjoy
the same level of spam protection as large enterprises,"
said Tonny Yu, CEO of Mailshell. "Consumers and businesses
both want the same thing: the easiest and most accurate
solution to spam. The Mailshell engine meets this need
and we can deploy it across more products and platforms
than any other company."
Mailshell's engine identifies spam by
using 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. The Mailshell Engine 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.
About Mailshell
Mailshell is OEM anti-spam leader. The Mailshell Engine
is the only anti-spam solution developed explicitly
to integrate spam-blocking technology with common IT
components, including security appliances, mail servers,
mail clients, anti-virus applications and many others.
Mailshell's software recently earned an "Editors' 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. For
more information visit http://www.mailshell.com.
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Contact:
Stefan Pollack, The Pollack PR Marketing Group,
(310) 556-4443, spollack@ppmgcorp.com
