Cloudmark Celebrates Record-Setting One-Year Anniversary of SpamNet by Announcing Half a Million Users
SpamNet and the world's largest and fastest growing SpamFighting community make history together in real-time
SAN FRANCISCO — June 26, 2003 — Cloudmark™, the company that empowers consumers to fight spam, celebrated its record-setting, one-year anniversary of SpamNet™, the easy-to-use Microsoft® Outlook® add-in that saves you time by protecting you from spam. In its first year, SpamNet made history as the largest and fastest growing SpamFighting community in the world with half a million users contributing to an unprecedented 5000% growth rate of spam stopped. SpamNet has also achieved a global presence stopping spam in over 40 countries. SpamNet is successful because it is the first to connect a community of people in real-time, so that pressing the Block button instantly stops spam for the other half a million SpamFighters the second a spam attack occurs. This unique, real-time response to spam is the reason SpamNet delivers the highest accuracy and offers exceptional simplicity - just install it and your spam is automatically eliminated.
"I remember meeting with the Cloudmark folks before they even launched SpamNet and a year later I'm not surprised by their record-setting growth," says Ray Everett-Church, a founder of the Coalition Against Unsolicited Commercial Email (CAUCE) and Chief Privacy Officer for ePrivacy Group which recently launched SpamSquelcher for ISP's. "Because it was the first and quickly became the largest SpamFighting community enabling people to stop spam, they have been well positioned from early on to achieve critical mass on the desktop."
SpamNet has realized record growth and worldwide popularity thru many industry firsts
- The first, largest and fastest growing SpamFighting community in the world. It brings a critical mass of people from around the world together in real-time empowering them to protect themselves and their friends and family from spam. On the rare occasion where a spam slips thru, SpamFighters simply click a block button to protect the rest of the community from the message instantly. This is easier and has more impact than clicking delete because it contributes to stopping spam for half a million other people.
- Instant Reaction Time. SpamNet is the only real-time anti-spam solution to automate the feedback of a massive community so spam is stopped the instant it is sent out. SpamNet's reaction time from the SpamFighter clicking the Block button on a new spam message to it being stopped for the rest of the half a million people in the community is instant.
- Revolutionary Trust System adds Reflexive Learning. SpamNet's instant reaction time is possible because of its Trust Evaluation System (TeS), the only way a community approach can make the votes of each SpamFighter count immediately. One report to the system creates a learned reflex to spam that then saves the rest of the community from receiving it. Without this learned reflex, a person would have to look at each individual message to confirm it as spam and then write a rule to block it. With SpamNet, one person sees the spam and instantaneously the system knows whether that person can be trusted to stop that message automatically for the rest of the half a million in the community.
- The easiest to use solution. It's hassle-free - you just install it in minutes and forget about it. With the complexity of other filtering methods, consumers are forced to constantly tweak and adjust their product for it to work effectively and they can frustrate friends who have to jump through hoops just to contact you. With SpamNet, the service never gets out of date, and customers don't have to configure rules or update whitelists or blacklists because SpamNet works automatically. Plus, consumers don't have to change the way they do email today.
- Highest accuracy. SpamNet has proven itself the most accurate solution according to this summer's PC Magazine spam filtering review that named SpamNet the "best performance overall."
- Proves you only need one way to stop spam if it's the right way. There's no need to add other techniques to the mix if you can deliver the best results without them. Doing so just complicates things for consumers, adds false positives and lessens the effectiveness.
- Broadest global presence equals worldwide effectiveness like never before. One more benefit of being the largest real-time spamfighting community with the broadest presence around the world is that it stops spam in all languages.
- No false criticals. Since every message blocked has had human review and because a person-to-person email is never seen by others in the community, you will never lose a mission critical, or person-to-person email message from mom, or your boss for example.
Pricing and Availability
New users can download SpamNet 1.1 today and take advantage of a FREE 30-day trial at www.cloudmark.com/spamnet. A new user subscription will cost $3.99 a month post-trial. As a thank you for their support, existing beta users can lock in a special promotional subscription price of $1.99 a month as well as extend that low price to friends and family and earn a free month for each sign-up. As a subscriber, you receive product updates, new features and functionality and customer support all for a small monthly subscription price that is about the price of a latte a month.
Small and medium businesses can purchase SpamNet for volume discounts as well at http://www.cloudmark.com/products/spamnet/volumediscounts/.
About SpamNet
Don't just protect yourself. Protect your friends, family and the world from spam by joining the 520,000 other SpamFighters 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.
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.