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Mailshell Filter Now Offers
More Power in Smaller Package
Turbo Charged Spam Filter Offers 25% More Filter
Checks, 400% Increase in Speed, and 80% Decrease in Bandwidth
and Memory
SANTA CLARA, CA, September 8, 2005 - Mailshell,
the leading anti-spam and anti-phishing engine provider,
today introduced SpamCompiler v4.0 Turbo, the first
spam filter capable of dynamically increasing its throughput
during spikes in email traffic. Under extreme load the
engine now processes up to 100 messages per second,
20 times faster than some competitors. It increases
its speed even further by intelligently suspending filter
checks on a message once it determines with confidence
that the message is spam.
"Mailshell provides more for less,"
said Tonny Yu, CEO of Mailshell. "Our engine conducts
1,000 times as many filter checks, 20 times faster and
using far fewer resources than other spam and phishing
filters. We also deliver greater financial value to
our OEMs who see increased revenue while decreasing
expenses in the first year of their relationship with
us."
SpamCompiler v4.0 Turbo also features
compact five-minute data updates with an overall 80%
reduction in update size. The increased update frequency
ensures that all newest spam and phishing attacks, including
those that begin and end in less than an hour, are immediately
identified and caught. Version 4.0 Turbo of the Mailshell
engine is the first to provide separate categorization
of phishing to safely segregate from both legitimate
email and from generic spam, earning praise from customers
and government regulators:
"Spam-borne scams and ID theft issues
have contributed to make spam control an important area
of focus for the FTC," said Don Blumenthal of the
Federal Trade Commission. "Email authentication
techniques can be a worthwhile addition to more conventional
filters, user education, and legislative and regulatory
controls."
Mailshell's SpamCompiler v4.0 Turbo is
also the first solution to combine SPF-based sender
authentication with quantifiable reputation data. Mailshell's
global worldwide network closely tracks the reputation
of emails and their senders worldwide. MailshellŐs engine
includes techniques to identify and correct bad SPF
records and it allows users to override and cache SPF
data. By combining it with Mailshell's patent-pending
SpamRepute statistical analysis, the engine generates
greater accuracy, improved identification of spoofed
messages, and increased throughput.
"Threats continue to evolve and new
countermeasures must evolve as well," said Greg
Young, a research vice president with Gartner. "Products
identifying bad content are maturing and widely available.
A logical next step is inter-enterprise or peer network
sharing of which threats are providing that bad content."
Mailshell's software helps its OEM partners,
including Oracle Corporation, CyberGuard, Panda Software,
ZyXEL, Broderbund and Lyris Technologies, among others,
generate new anti-spam revenue, upsell existing products
to new anti-spam customers, and cut anti-spam engineering
and support costs to near zero. Companies can integrate
the Mailshell Engine into their existing product or
application using Mailshell's development toolkit, the
Mailshell Anti-Spam SDK. In addition to the flagship
Mailshell SDK, the Mailshell SDK Lite requires only
32 KB of code to add spam filtering to small footprint
devices such as routers, modems, firewalls and other
low memory edge devices.
About Mailshell Inc.: Mailshell
is the leading licensor of spam filtering software to
OEMs and has more OEM partners with revenues in excess
of $50 million than any other company in the world.
It is the first and only spam engine in the world with
SpamCompiler Technology, which can process more than
a million filter checks in a fraction of a second. Mailshell's
SpamCompiler developers hold nearly 30 patents in database
modeling and design, and are leading experts in using
Artificial Intelligence technology to compile high-level
languages into optimized code. Via Mailshell's OEM partners,
more than 6,000 companies and 10 million consumers worldwide
rely on SpamCompiler software to block spam. Mailshell
was founded in 1999 and enjoys a 100% renewal rate among
its OEM customers. For more information: http://www.mailshell.com.
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Contact:
Stefan Pollack, The Pollack PR Marketing Group,
(310) 556-4443, spollack@ppmgcorp.com
