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Thursday, March 04, 2004
Sophos launches spam, virus filter
By Jessica B. Natad
THE proliferation of spam messages has decreased the productivity of company employees.
“Employees waste time opening spam mails that are not related to their work. The problem is, they won’t know if an email is a spam mail or a genuine or business-related email, unless they open it. And if they delete genuine emails, this will result to lost business,” Sophos Anti-Virus Asia Pte Ltd. managing director Charles Cousins said.
He said sending spam mail has become one of the marketing strategies of companies in the US to sell their products.
To help employees concentrate on their work, Sophos has launched PureMessage, a software solution that protects against spam, viruses and other email-borne security threats.
Pure Message will determine the spam from genuine mail and automatically delete the spam.
He said Sophos’ new product has been performing well since its launch.
Among the messages it has deleted, some 97 percent were spam. The rest were genuine mail.
PureMessage also synchronizes automatically with daily updates from the Sophos anti-spam and anti-virus labs, stops malicious codes at the gateway before they can proliferate in the corporate network, and provides end-user quarantine review for quick retrieval of legitimate messages.
(March 4, 2004 issue)
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