PROTECTION

ANTI-SPAM: KEEPING THE INBOX CLEAN

At a tough economic time when concerned organizations are trying to figure out how to stay afloat, phishers and spammers are now more than ever enjoying the opportunity to ride the wave on the financial crisis. "Recession spam" messages have surfaced hoarding text such as "times are hard, money is tight." Not only are cyber-crooks targeting the banking industry, credit cards and passwords, campaigns are focusing on scams promoting services that contend to eliminate or leverage debts, mortgages, and loan obligations. Other spammers are using the economic crisis as a stage for advertising drugs, pirated software or replicas. It seems to be a no win situation when battling spam and virus attacks.

These attacks are a nuisance and pose harmful threats to your system causing downtime and wasted productivity. Phishers now use spam to lasso computer users into scams that lead to identity theft. Spam carries viruses that infect your computer, while others can totally crash your computer. Valuable bandwidth is compromised by inappropriate ads making it difficult to receive legitimate emails. Commtouch anti-spam technology is known as the industry's most reliable spam protection platform. This edge blocking solution not only reduces bandwidth but also reduces infrastructure costs.