Cloudmark announces SpamNet 1.0; 400,000 members of the first and largest spamfighting community can't be wrong
First to launch an anti-spam service that is always there, just like your phone service
SAN FRANCISCO — April 23, 2003 — Cloudmark, the company that empowers consumers to fight spam, today announced the availability of SpamNet 1.0, the easy-to-use Microsoft® Outlook® add-in that saves you time by protecting you from spam. The highly anticipated 1.0 release is backed by the first and largest spamfighting community in the world, now with more than 400,000 users and adding a new SpamFighter every minute. Cloudmark is the first to launch a real-time anti-spam service that is worry-free and improves every second. SpamNet automatically gets the most up to date information from its 400,000 SpamFighters, who are submitting over 15 spam reports a second, making it the easiest and most effective spam fighting tool in the industry. The key to SpamNet's success is its simplicity - you just install it in minutes and forget about it. Other anti-spam products force their customers to constantly tweak and adjust their product for it to work effectively. With SpamNet, there's no paying for upgrades in the future and customers don't have to configure rules, or update whitelists or blacklists because SpamNet works automatically.
To celebrate final availability and to thank our loyal SpamFighters, Cloudmark is offering beta users a special discount price of $3.99 a month to continue the fight against spam. New users can try SpamNet FREE for 30-days at www.cloudmark.com/spamnet and then pay only $4.99 a month to experience the spam protection trusted by hundreds of thousands.
"Many spam-fighting tools work...but SpamNet works perfectly. It integrates seamlessly into Outlook and it's the first anti-spam add-in to work with Outlook 2003 Beta 2," says Larry McJunkin, VP Operations, Windows Users Group Network (WUGNET). "SpamNet is easy to use, but most importantly it captures over 97 percent of the 200+ spam messages I receive daily."
The SpamNet Service
"Customer's are demanding a simple, easy to use solution to spam and over 400,000 people agree that SpamNet is the answer," says Karl Jacob, CEO for Cloudmark. "We would like to thank all the SpamFighters who made SpamNet a success and who are responsible for how effective SpamNet is today."
Don't just protect yourself. Protect your friends, family and the world from spam by joining the hundreds of thousands of others who are stopping spam. SpamNet keeps over 95% of spam out of your inbox automatically, so spam doesn't steal time from your day. If a spam message does slip through into your inbox, you just click the Block button to remove the message from your inbox and notify the SpamNet community. This automatically helps stop that spam message from being sent to other members of SpamNet. Similarly, if you think a certain message is not spam, you can click an "Unblock" button and share that knowledge with the network. SpamNet has a Truth Evaluation System (TeS) to guarantee that only valid spam messages are blocked. SpamNet never deletes an email; it is just moved to the "spam" folder so you never lose the mail you care about.
New features and functionality
SpamNet 1.0 includes support for Microsoft Office 2003 beta 2, Active-Scan, which constantly scans your inbox for spam messages, and personal SpamNet statistics so SpamFighters can see how well SpamNet is working for them and keep tabs on their contribution to the fight against spam. SpamNet also adds an Auto-Unblock feature to ensure your newsletters don't end up in the spam folder. Auto-Unblock makes sure customers receive certain newsletters no matter how much they resemble spam. Now, when you Unblock an email from the same address twice, SpamNet will pop-up an option for you to always receive mail from that address.
Pricing and Availability
New users can download SpamNet 1.0 today and take advantage of a FREE 30-day trial at www.cloudmark.com/spamnet . A new user subscription will cost $4.99 a month post-trial. As a thank you for their support, the more than 400,000 beta users can lock in a special promotional subscription price of $3.99 a month and save $1 a month. We will not expire or turn off the beta, so our current beta users will still be protected from spam even with the availability of 1.0. As a subscriber, you receive product updates, new features and functionality and customer support all for a small monthly subscription price that is little more than the price of a latte a month.
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About Cloudmark
Cloudmark builds messaging security software that protects communications service provider networks and their subscribers against the widest range of messaging threats. Only Cloudmark Security Platform™ delivers instant security and control across diverse messaging environments, enabling communications service providers to create a safe user experience, protect revenue and safeguard their brand, while streamlining infrastructure and reducing operational costs. Cloudmark's patented solutions protect more than 120 tier-one customers worldwide, including AT&T, Verizon, Swisscom, Comcast, Cox and NTT.