Cloudmark's SpamNet Named "Best Buy" in PC World's June 2004 Desktop Anti-Spam Roundup.
SpamNet delivers Roundup's highest accuracy (over 98%) and the lowest false positive rate landing back to back wins.
SAN FRANCISCO — May 12, 2004 — Cloudmark™ Inc., the company that stops spam before it costs you money, today announced that Cloudmark SpamNet™, the easy-to-use email add-in that protects you from spam, demonstrated the best performance in PC World's June 2004 'antispam filters' roundup. SpamNet was rated as the magazine's "Best Buy," including the lowest false positive rate that is an unprecedented 50 percent better than the second place vendor. In addition, SpamNet blocked almost 100% of the testers' junk mail to out perform all of the nine products tested.
Logan G. Harbaugh, reviewer for PC World states, "SpamNet had the lowest false positive rate of any spam filter I've ever tested and a superb catch rate of over 98 percent." Harbaugh notes that this includes beating out even enterprise-class products that he has tested for PC World's sister publication InfoWorld. Harbaugh also found that SpamNet "didn't tag any legitimate messages that were not bulk mail." This finding confirms that a SpamNet user will never experience a business critical, or person-to-person email in the Spam Folder, because a group of trusted SpamNet users has to actually vote a message as spam for it to end up there. Furthermore, Harbaugh notes that SpamNet's "intuitive interface, virtually effortless filtering, and high success rate should put SpamNet on your short list of filtering products."
Cloudmark SpamNet was also the only product to receive five stars for accuracy in the recent February, PC Magazine spam filtering roundup.
Real-time community solution ensures accuracy
Cloudmark SpamNet is the first and largest SpamFighting community in the world, more than 900,000 people in more than 70 countries collaborating in real-time to stop spam. Available for both Outlook® and Outlook Express®, SpamNet keeps over 98 percent of spam out of your inbox automatically, so spam doesn't steal time from your day. 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.
SpamNet never deletes an email; it is just moved to the Spam Folder so you never lose email you care about. Its collaborative architecture and real-time response are the reason why not a single SpamNet user was infected by 2003's worst virus, Sobig-f, or the recent "Sasser" virus in early May 2004.
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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.