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Spam Virus and Phishing Filtering:What is Spam Virus and Phishing Filtering?Spam refers to electronic junk mail or junk newsgroup posting, in other words, its unsolicited e-mail. In addition to being a nuisance, spam also eats up a lot of network bandwidth. Because the Internet is a public network, little can be done to prevent spam. However, the use of software filters in e-mail programs can be used to remove most spam sent through e-mail. Phishing refers to an attempt to capture personal details by an email being sent requesting you to log in to a site which would be under the disguise of a prominent site such as a financial institution. Its aim would be to capture your login details, credit card details and / or account details. How it Works Harbour computing has an email filtering solution for your business. Drawing on our experience with email hosting and scanning for our shared hosting clients we can now offer a system that takes the “bite” out of spam and email viruses. Instead of having to "wade through" hundreds of useless emails promoting products and services that you do not want, our system delivers only the email deemed to be virus and spam free. Features: It is almost an impossible task for a spam filter to catch 100% of spam emails. However, without your emails going through these filters, you would receive many of these nuisance spam emails. The spammers (the people who send the spam emails) and the designers of the spam filtering software are constantly battling with each other. So, for example, if some spam emails start getting through the filter, the designers/programmers need to update the filter and put in place greater measures in an attempt to prevent future occurrences of this. In turn, the spammers find ways to get around these new measures, and the cycle continues. If you do notice an unusual amount of spam filtering through to your inbox than usual, then please notify us about this. We will then pass on this information to the spam filtering company and they will in turn investigate, and if necessary update the rules applied to your emails so that it catches all of these spam emails. Advantages of Spam Filtering The advantages of spam filtering are a saving in buisness time which ultimatly realises a saving in net cost. Spam email can cost companies a fortune in lost time dealing with the nuisance of sorting through spam and deleting it. Spam filtering eliminates most of this problem by automatically filtering spam from business mail. Though no such system that is 100% spam proof. The spam problem can be controlled to the level of little impact on the day to day running of the buisiness leading to a greater use of company time. There is also a savings on the internet efficiency of the company by a great savings in bandwidth. How to get it set-up To get a quote on spam filtering for your company and to get this set-up please call us on 025 40598. | ||||||
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