Cloudmark SpamNet 1.0 Wins PC Magazine's Anti-Spam Filtering Test; Declared "...The Best Performance Overall"
Already the choice of over 400,000 consumers, SpamNet outperforms competitors
SAN FRANCISCO — May 1, 2003 — Cloudmark, the company that empowers consumers to fight spam, today announced that its newly available SpamNet 1.0, the easy-to-use Microsoft® Outlook® add-in, won the PC Magazine personal anti-spam First Looks review with "best performance overall." SpamNet, the first and largest spamfighting community in the world, has been acknowledged as being the best by many industry and media influentials, winning consumer polls and most notably proving its success with record growth to over 400,000 users in just 10 months. Today's PC Magazine lab test results prove SpamNet outperforms the competition with its real-time anti-spam service that is worry-free and improves every second. With SpamNet, you protect yourself, your friends, your family and the world from spam by joining the largest spamfighting community. SpamNet is available at www.cloudmark/spamnet/ for a free 30-day trial.
As stated in the PC Magazine review, "[SpamNet] version 1.0 has arguably the best performance overall. On our tests, it had the highest rate of spam detection among the products we tested and relatively few false positives. SpamNet did the best, correctly identifying 86.9 percent of our spam messages."
"This test proves you can get the best results without having to mess around with whitelists, or treat your friends like spammers with a Challenge-Response tool," said Karl Jacob, CEO for Cloudmark. "We are extremely excited about winning this PC Magazine lab review. Delivering simplicity on top of the most effective spam protection in the industry is why we are being used by hundreds of thousands of SpamFighters."
Other products require constant tweaking, but SpamNet delivers the best spam protection worry-free
As stated in the PC Magazine review when talking about other products, "A whitelist product gives you more control... []. But such a product also involves some work-both for you (as you construct your approved list) and for those who receive challenge responses and need to act to get their messages through." Another drawback of other products as stated by PC Magazine is that "you must regularly visit the quarantine folder and check for important messages from unexpected sources."
SpamNet avoids these problems because of its simplicity - 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 and, as shown in the PC Magazine test results, delivers "The best performance overall."
About SpamNet
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 an average of 90% 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.
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 even if they are considered spam by the community as a whole. 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.
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.