Cloudmark's SpamNet Named "Editor's Choice" in PC Magazine's July 2004 Desktop Anti-Spam Product Review
SpamNet reigns undefeated on accuracy while becoming the first desktop product to record a zero false positive rate
SAN FRANCISCO — July 29, 2004 — Cloudmark™ Inc., the company that delivers the immune system for email, today announced that Cloudmark SpamNetTM, the first and largest SpamFighting community in the world, received PC Magazine's "Editor's Choice" in the most recent anti-spam product review by scoring the first ever zero false-positive rate in addition to blocking over 95 percent of the testers' junk mail. For the second consecutive showing in PC Magazine, SpamNet achieved the highest overall accuracy rate among all anti-spam solutions tested, maintaining its undefeated status in all competitive reviews conducted within the last six-months.
According to Neil Rubenking, a leading analyst with PC Magazine, "Based on its consistent excellent performance we rate Cloudmark SpamNet an Editor's Choice in the anti-spam field." Rubenking added, "For comparison, we included Cloudmark SpamNet in the testing process for this review because it tested so well in the last roundup. It provided better results than any of the reviewed products, with no false positives whatsoever and at the same time allowed very little spam into the Inbox."
The only product to receiving Five Stars for accuracy in the February anti-spam product round-up, Cloudmark solidified its status as a benchmark in this July review. By again scoring the highest levels in accuracy, SpamNet is now the undisputed leader in the fight against spam beating its nearest competition in the false positive category by over 60 percent.
"This PC Magazine test and Editor's Choice award verify Cloudmark has achieved a significant breakthrough, high accuracy with zero false positives," said Karl Jacob, CEO for Cloudmark. "This is an important milestone for our community of SpamFighters who work in real time to achieve the end of spam and all email threats."
Real-time community ensures consistently high accuracy and zero false positives
Cloudmark™ SpamNet's success is attributable to a combination of superior technology and the largest SpamFighting community in the world, with more than a million users in over 72 countries collaborating in real-time to stop spam. Available for both Outlook® and Outlook Express®, SpamNet automatically prevents anywhere from 95-100 percent of spam from reaching a user's inbox. If a spam message does slip through to a user's inbox, they simply click the Block button to remove the message from the inbox, which notifies the entire SpamNet community immediately. This automatically stops that spam message from being sent to other members of the SpamNet community. Similarly, if a user thinks a certain message is not spam, they can click the Unblock button and share that intelligence with the network.
To establish trust and reputation for each user in the network, SpamNet uses its Trust Evaluation System (TeS). An individual user's trust rating is sent alongside every message submitted by SpamNet community members, eliminating flawed submissions and gaming of the system. Because a group of trusted users has to vote a message as spam for it to end up in the Spam Folder, SpamNet is able to achieve its benchmark, zero false positive rate. This real-time automated approach is also the reason that SpamNet instantly protected and continues to protect its community from the variants of the current MyDoom virus.
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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.