Cloudmark SpamNet Exhibits Best Performance in PC Magazine's February 2004 Antispam Roundup
Real-time community approach outperforms competitors in spam filtering accuracy and lowest false positives—two years in a row
SAN FRANCISCO — Feb. 9, 2004 — Cloudmark™ Inc., the company that stops spam before it costs you money, today announced that SpamNet™, the easy-to-use email add-in that protects you from spam, demonstrated the best performance in PC Magazine's February 2004 'antispam filters' roundup. SpamNet was the only product to receive five stars for accuracy, including the lowest false positive rate of all the eight products tested, classifying only one legitimate email as spam throughout the entire test. SpamNet also won PC Magazine's May 2003 test, proving that while the majority of other tested products degraded over time in the face of increasingly sophisticated spam, SpamNet's first-ever, real-time, community of more than 800,000 users actually improved in accuracy to continue delivering highest level of spam protection to the largest user community in the world.
As stated in the PC Magazine review, "Both versions [SpamNet for Outlook and Outlook Express] are exceedingly simple. Each adds no more than three new buttons and a quarantine folder to your mail client. Block and Unblock buttons let you contribute to the community consensus, while a third button opens a short list of tools, letting you configure a whitelist, check your spam statistics, and more."
SpamNet is the first and largest SpamFighting community in the world, more than 800,000 people in 70 countries collaborating in real-time to stop spam. Available for both Outlook®® and Outlook Express®, SpamNet keeps over 95 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 reasons not a single SpamNet user was infected by 2003's worst virus, Sobig-f, or the recent Bagle and MyDoom viruses of early 2004.
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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.