| Level 5 Internet is proud to announce the launch of it's MailCrusader™ email gateway. |
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| MailCrusader™ protects against viruses and spam by detecting it before the email is delivered to your mailbox. We will catch 97%+ of all spam and 100% of all known viruses. In addition we provide protection against phishing scams and other types of email fraud. |
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MailCrusader – why bother…?
Because these are the costs of spam
| Every time an employee receives and stores unwanted e-mail this costs the company bandwidth in receiving the spam and disk space in storing it. How often do you empty your deleted folders? This spam can sit there for ages taking up valuable space. |
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| Spam can waste valuable employee time just in opening and reviewing them, IT administrators spend much time trying to stop spam entering their networks. It has been estimated very conservatively that each person gets 4 spam messages a day and takes about 10 seconds to open review and delete or store. On a large scale of a company with 500 employees would lose 166 employee days every year dealing with spam. |
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| Much of the spam that wings its way into our inbox is pornographic, as an individual there is no legal problem – it’s just unfortunate. But as an employer what are the legal issues if you cannot demonstrate that you have tried to stop this to protect your employees? In the US employers have been cited in a number of sexual harassment suits because they did nothing. It will not be long before the UK follows suit. Employers have a duty to care for their employees and they can do this by using technology to protect their employees from offensive spam. |
Some spam facts
- The United States is by far the largest generator of spam emails, with 60.42 per cent of all spam originating there. China is the next largest generator of spam.
- Of the various categories, spam advertising products was the most prevalent with nearly 36 per cent of all spam falling into this category. Adult related spam was the next largest contributor with 31.7 per cent and spam relating to financial matters in the third most popular group, with 26.53 per cent coming from that category.
- Interestingly, scams and fraud made up only 2.23 per cent of the spam mail. Of that figure though, identity theft - known as phishing - made up an astounding 73 per cent of scam emails. To put those figures into real terms, of the 31 billion emails sent daily, 12.4 billion are spam emails. Just over 27.5 million of those are scam and fraud related and just over 20 million of those are phishing expeditions. Per day.
- To put an even more interesting spin on that, Vircom have found that just over 86.5 per cent of spam email weighs in at 5kb or less. If we take the mean of that to be about 2.5kb that works out to just over 12.5 billion emails of around 2.5kb. Multiply that out and we have over 2.5 terabytes of spam emails floating around the internet every day.
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