Spam and virus protection becomes world’s first
“DonationWare” security service
Innovative
solution for single users and small businesses
Newcastle, UK, August 11th, 2005 GenerateOne Ltd,
an innovative UK software developer is to launch a new online application based
service to provide Anti-Virus and Spam protection based on a donation-ware
concept to help protect single users and small businesses.
“Anti virus and spam filtering is almost obligatory for all
computer users these days,” explains Mr Robin Harris
, Product Manager of GenerateOne Ltd,
“…and we felt that a donation based service would offer a real benefit to
single users or small businesses that don’t have a resident IT expert on hand
to manage these types of applications.”
“The project evolved from our work with the CLAM Anti virus
GPL project and commercial work in creating spam filtering for a client and we
believe this is the first ever security web service to be offered as a
donationware concept.” Adds Mr Harris
mymailprotect.com uses Clam AntiVirus,
a toolkit created and maintained by the open source community and currently
used by thousands of ISP’s and educational establishments such as The
University of Queensland, The University of Applied Sciences in Saarbrucken and The Loyola
University Chicago.
The SPAM filter was created by GenerateOne and uses Bayesian
filtering and challenge response protection to effectively learn the habits of
users so that messages that are spam for one user are not necessarily blocked
for another user.
Both the Anti Virus and SPAM filtering services are
available for any POP3 email account and can be configured for outbound email
scanning. “There is no fixed fee for the use of the service and we will rely on
donations from satisfied users for the immediate future. We will bear the cost
of maintaining servers and bandwidth but if a huge number of people sign up for
the service and performance is negatively affected – we may restrict the number
of active users.” Harris concludes.
Feedback from test users of the service has been very
positive, as Aaron Kernaghan, Sales
Director comments, “I have used Mymailprotect.com for several weeks so far
and it has blocked about 98% of the spam that would normally plague my inbox
and detected and cleaned two emails that had viruses within attachments.”
Mymailprotect.com is the first of a number of innovative web
services under development at GenerateOne and will officially launch on September
1st.
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