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News Release from: Panda Security | Subject: TrustLayer Mail
Edited by the Marketingservicestalk Editorial
Team on 12 June 2007
TrustLayer data finds spam makes up 90%
of email
According to data compiled by TrustLayer Mail, the managed security service from Panda Software, 90% of email that reached companies in May was spam.
This data has been extracted from a study of those companies who have contracted this service "Spam is more than just annoying - unless there is a good mail filter system in place, workers will waste a lot of time deleting junk mail
This article was originally published on Marketingservicestalk on 27 Mar 2007 at 8.00am (UK)
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"It could also contain malicious code, and therefore represents a risk to corporate security.
"For this reason, TrustLayer blocks spam and all types of malware before it can reach computers", explained Victor Omaechevarria, TrustLayer Mail Product Manager.
With respect to malicious code, worms from the Netsky family and Trojans from the SpamtaLoad family were the malware most frequently detected by TrustLayer Mail.
The iFrame exploit was also responsible for numerous incidents.
This is an HTML code that tries to exploit a vulnerability in Internet Explorer.
The Panda Software service ensures that these and other malicious code will be blocked before they reach companies' mailboxes and guarantees -with an SLA- that email will be 100% virus-free.
TrustLayer Mail includes technology that combines signature-based protection with a system for consulting a global network of continuously updated security servers.
Thanks to this system, it is able to detect 98.5% of all spam.
It also returns a false positive ratio of just one in every 27,905 messages processed.
This data has been compiled from the networks protected by TrustLayer Mail during the solution's trial phase.
The TrustLayer system architecture offers load-balancing and redundancy and is designed to offer maximum availability (99.99%) to ensure an uninterrupted message delivery service: 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
This high availability is supported by a team of experts, day and night, monitoring the 24x7 mail service and resolving any incidents.
The service is provided from one of the Managed Data Centres of Spain's largest Telco (Telefonica), in the heart of the internet, guaranteeing service availability at all times.
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