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Richi Jennings

Spam'n'stuff

Weird Computerworld spam story, with ironic twist

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IT TOPICS:Enterprise Software & Services, Security, Software

Greetings from Vegas.

Our chums at Computerworld Oz recently published what seems to me to be a very oddly-written story. It seems that Kingfisher Bay -- an Australian resort -- was using an "aging" version of Symantec's spam filter. Surprise-surprise, old versions of spam filters don't work very well, letting through a lot of spam.

In fact, it turns out that the resort wasn't using the Symantec Brightmail technology at all. It was still using the old, pre-Brightmail engine. Oddly, Symantec still sells this -- can't see why that's a good idea.

Anyway, it sounds to me like the company decided it wanted to use a managed service, rather than an in-house solution. Many smaller organizations are making this choice. Their obvious targets are MessageLabs, Postini, Microsoft (née FrontBridge), or a bunch of smaller/regional providers.

In the end, they chose MessageLabs. Naturally, MessageLabs is crowing about how it's gained a customer from Symantec.

But hang on, doesn't MessageLabs use Symantec Brightmail anti-spam for its service? How ironic...

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Hey Sujay, don't you work at

Submitted by Jack on June 11, 2007 - 12:18 P.M.

Hey Sujay, don't you work at MicroWorld?

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Hello Bloggers, I

Submitted by Sujay on June 11, 2007 - 6:35 A.M.

Hello Bloggers,
I never realised that I was about to be affected by a recurrent problem of spam. For the lastyear I have been plagued with spam without any solution to it. I did away with my beloved Symantec and tried my hand at Mcafee, Trend Micro, Kaspersky, Panda and even NOD32. When I had finally given up a colleague of mine suggested an unheard of software called MailScan, it is made by a firm called MicroWorld. After having tried everything possible, I thought why not give this new software a try and to my surprise, it did get rid of my problem, It detected and got rid of viruses, spyware, worms which even my beloved norton couldn't.

On doing further research i realised that it is so good because alongwith the better and more regular updates than anyone else it also has something called NILP tech. this in simple terms means artficial intelligence. So the more it is used the more smarter and better MailScan gets.

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