Cloudmark Announces Final Availability of SpamNet for Outlook Express
Real-time community approach outperforms competitors in spam filtering accuracy and lowest false positives—two years in a row
SAN FRANCISCO — Feb. 12, 2004 — Cloudmark™ Inc., the company that stops spam before it costs you money, today announced the final availability of SpamNet™ for Outlook Express®, the easy-to-use email add-in that protects you from unwanted email and enables you to join the fight against spam. The highly anticipated release is backed by the first and largest SpamFighting community in the world, now with more than 800,000 members and growing rapidly. For the first time, SpamNet has connected this group of SpamFighters spread across more than 70 countries in real-time, so that their contributions actually stop spam instantaneously for everyone in the community. In fact, Cloudmark's automated, real-time community approach is the reason not a single user was infected by 2003's worst virus, Sobig-f, or the recent Bagle and MyDoom worms of early 2004. Download the free 30-day trial of SpamNet for Outlook Express here: http://www.cloudmark.com/spamnet/.
"When I first downloaded SpamNet for Outlook Express, I ran it against my Inbox, which contained more than 2,000 messages dating back a few years," said Burley, Idaho, beta user R. Saldana. "Your software found 132 messages that it considered spam. Then I checked my spam folder and found that every single item in the spam box was an advertisement. I have tried other spam fighting software, but yours is truly impressive – it beats everything else hands down!"
About SpamNet
SpamNet is the first and largest SpamFighting community in the world – more than 800,000 people collaborating in real-time to stop spam. Available for both Outlook® and Outlook Express®, SpamNet keeps over 95 percent of spam out of your inbox automatically, while protecting its users from all email-borne virus and worm outbreaks.
If a spam does slip through to your inbox, simply click the Block button to remove the message from your inbox and notify the entire SpamNet community immediately. This automatically helps stop that spam message from being sent to other members of the SpamNet community. Similarly, if you think a certain message is not spam, you can click the Unblock button and share that intelligence with the network. To ensure accuracy and the lowest false positives, SpamNet uses its Truth Evaluation System (TeS) to establish trust and reputation for each user in the network. This trust rating is considered alongside every message submitted by SpamNet members, eliminating flawed submissions and gaming of the system.
In addition, SpamNet installs in just minutes, is extremely user friendly, and is simple to use because it doesn't require constant tweaking, rule configuration or whitelist and blacklist updating. SpamNet is also the only product in the recent February, PC Magazine "antispam filters" review to receive the full Five stars for accuracy, delivering best performance two years in a row.
Pricing and Availability
As a thank you for their support over the last five months, all current SpamNet for Outlook Express beta users can take advantage of a special, limited-time subscription price of $1.99 per month, a 50 percent cost savings. We will not expire or turn off the beta, so beta users can still be protected from spam even with the final availability of SpamNet 1.4 for Outlook Express. New users can take advantage of a free 30-day trial today. Regular price is $3.99 per month, or get 12 months for the price of ten months for just $39.95 per year. SpamNet for Outlook Express supports popular Web mail programs including Hotmail and MSN, as well as corporate Exchange environments and POP3 systems such as Yahoo!.
*The special $1.99 per month limited-time offer to Outlook Express beta users will end on March 31, 2004. The widely popular SpamNet for Outlook is also available for a free 30-day trial at http://www.cloudmark.com/spamnet/.
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About Cloudmark
Cloudmark protects 2 billion global subscribers daily from an explosion in messaging abuses across more operator networks than anyone else. Only Cloudmark defends the world’s largest Mobile, Fixed and Social Media Providers, including AT&T, Comcast, MySpace, NTT, Swisscom and Time Warner Cable, with scalable and accurate protection against the widest range of existing and emerging messaging threats.