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SpamTrap
SpamTrap is an easy-to-use Australian spam filtering service from the founders of OzEmail. Combining proprietary filtering and spam collection techniques, SpamTrap has been designed to reduce the number of spam arriving in any standard ISP mailbox. With no software to download and no ongoing user maintenance, SpamTrap only requires two simple changes to your email program.  After that, there�s nothing else you need to do � we do all the work for you.  We�re currently offering a 30 day free trial of the service.  The trial requires no registration and no credit card details � simply send an email to join@spamtrap.net.au to receive trial setup instructions that are customised to your email program.  For more information about SpamTrap, see www.spamtrap.net.au.

McAfee Security
McAfee Security is a product division of Network Associates, Inc. www.networkassociates.com that protects businesses from security breaches, virus attacks and blended threats. McAfee Security provides comprehensive network protection through industry leading anti-virus, encryption, desktop firewall, intrusion detection, viral vulnerability assessment and online managed services. McAfee SpamKiller for consumers helps users monitor, filter, and quarantine unsolicited messages from entering their email inboxes. McAfee� SpamKiller(tm) for Microsoft� Exchange Small Business is the first product in Network Associates� multi-tiered approach to combating today's enterprise spam problem. Network Associates has developed the McAfee SpamKiller product family to detect spam with a success rate of 95% straight out of the box with a false positive rate of less than 0.05%, which means that companies can install the product and see an immediate ROI and increase in employee productivity. 

Bluebottle
Bluebottle is an open-source email verification system that has proven to be effective in blocking unwanted email. The technology has been successfully trialled over a six month period under a free consumer service. It has now been re-engineered to provide simple integration, and provide high scalability for service providers and enterprise customers. Bluebottle can be either integrated with existing MTAs (Mail Transfer Agents), corporate mail servers including MS Exchange and Lotus Notes, or provided as an appliance server for network gateways. 

Hotmail
Hotmail provides a range of 4 free SPAM filtering products for people to activate in their MSN Hotmail accounts.  The biggest challenge is educating people how to do this.  The simplest explanation for Hotmail users to turn these on, is for users to click on the Options link which is next to the top row of tabs on the MSN Hotmail Home Page.  This link takes users straight to a table of Mail Handling options, where people can activate any and all of the range of SPAM filtering options.

MessageLabs (corporate/business grade solution)
Note: *This solution is for businesses who own their own domain names and have more than 25 active e-mail users. If you are a home user or small business, please contact one of the other suppliers. MessageLabs, (www.messagelabs.com), is a Managed Services Provider (MSP) specialising in Internet-level e-mail content filtering. We currently scan 17 million e-mails every day. Clients inlude QBE Insurance, Lloyds TSB, UK Government and various agencies from within the Australian government. MessageLabs revolutionary SkyScan portfolio of services enables our Corporate and Government customers to be protected from threats such as viruses, unsolicited mail (SPAM), malicious and sensitive content and pornography, before they come anywhere near the network boundaries. You may apply Corporate policies, through the appropriate department, via a web based management tool.

Symantec
Symantec, the world leader in Internet security, provides essential protection from viruses, hackers, and privacy threats in one easy-to-use, fully integrated suite - Norton Internet Security 2003. Norton Internet Security 2003 includes: Norton Spam Alert, helps you detect and filter unwanted email. Norton AntiVirus, the world's most trusted antivirus solution*, removes infections automatically and protects both email and instant messages. Norton Personal Firewall continuously hides your PC from hackers, blocks online intrusions automatically, and safeguards confidential information. Automatic downloads keep Norton Internet Security up to date against new security threats. *Top-selling antivirus software product from October 1999 through May 2002 based on NPDTechworld Top Selling Business Software list.

Trend Micro SPS
Trend Micro Spam Prevention Service (SPS) is a high-performance, anti-spam application that blocks non-productive and malicious spam at the Internet gateway. SPS leverages patent-pending heuristics technology to provide highly accurate spam capture rates and low false positive rates. Designed to integrate seamlessly with antivirus and content security solutions, SPS processes and analyses 40-50+ messages per second to address the high-performance and scalability requirements of the global enterprise. SPS helps corporations prevent blended email threats, minimise network resource strains, and limit employee productivity losses associated with spam.

Telnet Media
Anti-Spam Sheriff, brought to you by the Australian based company Tel.Net Media, is designed to provide your organisation with a robust, complete server-based solution for your anti-spam needs - from a central, easy to manage, interface. Created as an SMTP proxy gateway, the Anti-Spam Sheriff utilises Tel.Net Media's patented Real Time Dynamic Modelling (RTDM), to give you the lowest incidence of false positives, while maintaining control over your unsolicited email concerns. The Sheriff is unique as a drop-in, set-and-forget anti-spam solution. It operates at the network level using the SMTP protocol so is compatible with all modern email gateways, and is fully self-contained and self-updating. There is no reliance on third party products and it requires zero training to begin recognising spam straight away. Methods of combat include quarantine, tagging, and bounce-to-sender. Designed to run on Solaris (Sparc & x86), Redhat, Mandrake, Free/OpenBSD, MAC OSX. 

Yahoo! Australia & NZ Mail
Yahoo! Australia & NZ Mail (http://mail.yahoo.com.au) is a leading free web-based email service with recently upgraded, patent-pending SpamGuard technology. Preliminary tests by Yahoo! of the new version of SpamGuard has resulted in reports of spam declining by as much as 40 percent. In addition to SpamGuard, Yahoo! Australia & NZ Mail offers other spam-fighting tools to further bolster protection against spam. The newest weapon against spam provides e-mail users the ability to block html graphics from being downloaded automatically when a message is opened. This optional "block html graphics" feature protects users from viewing images they may not want to see. This feature also protects users from web beacons, which are invisible tags within an e-mail that trigger an alert back to the spammer that the e-mail has been opened and the address is "live." Furthermore, people have the control to block up to 100 addresses and set up 15 filters to customise protection against spam. www.yahoo.com.au supports the IIA anti-spam initiative and invites you to trial Yahoo! Australia & NZ Mail today. Visit (http://mail.yahoo.com.au) for your free trial.

SurfControl
SurfControl E-mail Filter is the only Anti-SPAM protection offering corporations a multi-layered, intelligent defence to this costly scourge: Anti-Spam Agent�s unique digital fingerprint ensures near 100% accuracy. LexiMatch�s advanced Boolean logic assigns weightings to words and any sexually explicit images in SPAM messages are arrested through the Virtual Learning Agent, which employs Adaptive Reasoning Technology. SurfControl E-Mail Filter stops company email servers being used as a source of SPAM, confirms the sender�s domain matches the IP address in the header and allows compilation of prohibited senders� lists. SurfControl E-Mail Filter is priced at approximately $36 per user, based on 500 users and is compatible with mail servers including Microsoft Exchange, Lotus Notes Domino, Netscape mail Server, Sendmail and others.

destra Business Anti-Virus / Anti-Spam
destra Business is a leading Australian domain name, web hosting, data and voice provider specialising in cost effective solutions. Combining traditional mail services such as POP, IMAP and Webmail access, the destra Business Anti-Virus / Anti-Spam product draws upon the success of the open standard 'Sieve' to create an effective spam reduction tool. Anti-Spam identification scripts are updated 24/7 by destra Business and its Anti-Spam associates (VIRCOM/VASC) to ensure our customers receive the highest level of service. The destra Business Anti-Virus / Anti-Spam product block and eliminate viruses and spam message before they get to your inbox for $79 per year.

Norman Spam Control
Norman Spam Control (NSC) is an enterprise strength advanced server based Spam detection product from the provider of the multi-award winning Norman Virus Control . NSC performs Spam detection in three ways: * Analysis of email content using keywords in the email body and subject. Rules based on the keywords can be refined by the administrator. * Analysis of the email header. * Utilises "blacklists" which are located locally as well as third party blacklists such as ORDB or Spamhaus. The product is very flexible and easily configurable allowing for creation of disclaimers, flexible handling of detected Spam (move, deleted, review, quarantine, etc), monitoring and ample reporting. NSC also uses white list, where emails received from certain domains are never flagged as spam. Some of the other NSC features are: blocking of foreign language spam; mail archiving, monitoring and reporting; personalised server-based auto replies; POP3 downloader and seamless integration with Exchange server 2000 and 5.5.

Mailwasher Pro
MailWasher Pro is for individuals and businesses to rid their e-mail inboxes of all unsolicited advertising and unwanted junk mail. MailWasher Pro allows users to filter, delete, report on and bounce messages back to the originator, cleverly appearing as though their e-mail address does not exist - great for getting off junk mail lists. MailWasher Pro is simple to use, quick to download and contains many innovative features. Unlike other antispam utilities, MailWasher Pro allows users to preview their e-mail and all aspects of their messages before it reaches their computer, providing a first-line of defence against malicious and unwanted e-mail.

OrangeBox Mail
Cobion's OrangeBox Mail is an E-mail Content Filtering solution that allows you to monitor, manage and control inbound and outbound e-mail traffic for your entire organisation. Using OrangeBox Mail, organisations can increase employee productivity, reduce legal liability and improve network performance.  The OrangeBox Mail is available as an enterprise edition as well as an SDK solution for ISPs. OrangeBox Mail combines integrated program elements such as a spam database, blackhole lists of potential spam senders, as well as various text categories for the purposes of blocking spam mails. It also offers an evaluation function for checking any URL link references an e-mail might contain. This multistage scrutiny prevents "over blocking ", or the blocking of work-related e-mail. OrangeBox Mail sends harmless e-mails on their way, while blocking counterproductive and legally problematic content. http://www.pixel.com.au/products/orangebox_mail/orangebox_mail.htm.

SORBS
SORBS is a free service designed for ISPs or any organisation providing email services.  SORBS DNSbl lists Open Proxy servers, Open Relays and exploitable hosts, along with known spam sources, which enables you to significantly reduce the amount of spam received.  By using SORBS, The University of Queensland (a sponsor) is currently blocking approximately 40,000 out of 250,000 connections per day. http://www.dnsbl.sorbs.net/

MessageXchange
MessageXchange available from WebNetc in Australia is a corporate managed anti-spam service from US Internet which uses the latest in spam blocking technology to prevent up to 98% of incoming spam from reaching users. The first level of spam deterrence compares the source IP address of the sending mail server and refuses connection to a consistently updated list of known spam sources. The second level of spam deterrent uses a powerful content filter and email scanner which provides sophisticated message filtering and classification. Highly efficient, an average email takes less than 1 second to process. The third level of spam deterrent uses traditional keyword and key phrase method. As well as spam, it detects viruses with anti-virus signature updates no older than one hour. Customers include ShopNBC and Coldwell Banker as well as small businesses. Contact WebNetc for a free 30 day trial.

BitDefender for Linux Mail Servers (by Softwin SRL)
BitDefender AntiVirus for Linux Mail Servers will soon include a new AntiSPAM module called SpamTOX. Beta testing is about to start, and Softwin invites participation from interested Mail Server Administrators, software Resellers, IT consultants, etc. Your feedback will contribute to a relevant and reliable server level AntiSPAM solution, fully integrated within a proven AV solution. Beta Testers will be in the running for FREE licence giveaways. The Australian distributor will also offer ALL eligible participants a 2 year licence for the price of 1 year, when the product is commercially available. For more information contact NetFreighters Australia Pty Ltd or register directly.

Brightmail Anti-Spam (tm)
Brightmail Anti-Spam is a high performance software solution with a 95% catch rate that blocks spam at the Internet gateway. Combining several patented techniques, Brightmail Anti-Spam offers the best accuracy rate available in spam filtering technology (99.9999%), with an industry leading false positive rate of fewer than 1 false positive in every 1 million messages identified as spam. Brightmail's complete spam defense leverages a cocktail of effective technologies, a global spam detection network, and a real-time rule delivery mechanism. Many anti-spam solutions place even more burden on administrators. Immediately effective out-of-the box and constantly updated, Brightmail doesn't require any tuning or training of filters by administrators. For more information, visit www.brightmail.com.

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