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For the sixth time in a row, OnlyMyEmail's MX-Defender stopped more spam than any of the 23 competing spam solutions. OnlyMyEmail missed just one single spam message out of 171,963 total, for a new record spam filtering capture rate of 99.9994% besting the previous record of 99.9993% - also set by OnlyMyEmail in a previous competition.
By comparison, the next best capture rate was McAfee SaaS which missed 41 spam messages. The third best capture rate was AnubisNetworks which missed 97 spam emails.
The average "false-negative" rate among the other 18 filtering systems was a whopping 3,471 missed spam messages and the median was 272.
The results from Virus Bulletin's VBSpam Challenge have proven, time and again, that for the last year OnlyMyEmail's MX-Defender is decisively superior to any other spam defense available today, including hardware appliances, software programs and other Software as a Service (SaaS) solutions solutions as well.
The full list of competitors beaten by OnlyMyEmail includes: AnubisNetworks, BitDefender, FortiMail, GFI MailEssentials, Halon Security, IBM Lotus Protector, Kaspersky Anti-Spam, Libra Esva, Mailshell, McAfee Email Gateway, McAfee EWS, McAfee SaaS, Sophos Email Appliance, SPAM fighter, SpamTitan, Spider Antispam, Symantec Messaging Gateway, The Email Laundry, Vade Retro, Vamsoft ORF, Spamhaus ZEN+DBL and SURBL.
OnlyMyEmail Again Sets Records in the Virus Bulletin Spam Challenge
The results from OnlyMyEmail's fifth participation in the Virus Bulletin Virus Bulletin VBSpam Challenge have been released.
For the fifth time in a row, OnlyMyEmail's MX-Defender stopped more spam than any of the other 18 competitors. OnlyMyEmail allowed only 2 spam messages out of 291,304 total, for a new record spam filtering capture rate of 99.9993%. This phenomenal capture rate, combined with zero false-positives, once again earned OnlyMyEmail's MX-Defender the highest score ever awarded since the Virus Bulletin Spam Challenge began testing two years ago.
By comparison, the next best capture rate was Libra Esva which missed 99 spam messages, representing a false-negative rate of over 44 times worse than OnlyMyEmail's MX-Defender and this competitor also created 4 false positives. The second best overall score in the challenge was earned by BitDefender which, like OnlyMyEmail, had zero false positives, but missed 339 spam messages as compared to only 2 for OnlyMyEmail.
The average "false-negative" rate among the other 18 filtering systems was a whopping 1,189 missed spam messages and the median was 587.
The results from Virus Bulletin's VBSpam Challenge once again independently demonstrate that OnlyMyEmail's MX-Defender is decisively superior to any other spam defense available today, including hardware appliances, software programs and other Software as a Service (SaaS) solutions solutions as well.
In all, OnlyMyEmail accurately stopped far more spam than all of these other competing solutions: , BitDefender, FortiMail, GFI Mail Essentials, Halon Mail Security, Kaspersky Anti-Spam, Libra Esva, McAfee Email Gateway, McAfee SaaS, Sophos, SPAMfighter, SpamTitan, Spider Antispam, Symantec Messaging Gateway, The Email Laundry, Vade Retro, Vamsoft ORF, Spamhaus and SURBL.
Several competitors have recently dropped out of the competition, including: Anubis, Eleven, MessageStream, Pro-Mail and Webroot.
For the fourth time in a row, OnlyMyEmail's MX-Defender stopped more spam than any of the other 19 competitors, missing only 2 spam messages out of 72,008 for a record spam filtering capture rate of 99.9972%. This phenomenal capture rate, combined with zero false-positives, earned OnlyMyEmail's MX-Defender the highest score ever awarded since the Virus Bulletin Spam Challenge began testing two years ago.
By comparison, the next best capture rate was Libra Esva which missed 40 spam messages, representing a false-negative rate of over 2,000% worse than OnlyMyEmail's MX-Defender. The average "false-negative" rate among the other 18 filtering systems was a whopping 352 missed spam messages and the median was 169.
The results from Virus Bulletin's VBSpam Challenge once again independently proves that OnlyMyEmail's MX-Defender is decisively superior to any other spam defense available today, including not only Software as a Service (SaaS) solutions but also hardware and software solutions as well.
In all, OnlyMyEmail accurately stopped far more spam than all of these other competing solutions: Anubis, BitDefender, Eleven, FortiMail, GFI Mail Essentials, Halon Mail Security, Kaspersky, Libra Esva, McAfee Email Gateway, McAfee EWS, Sophos, SPAMfighter, SpamTitan, Symantec Messaging Gateway, The Email Laundry, Vade Retro, Vamsoft ORF, and Spamhaus.
Several competitors have dropped out of the competition, including: MessageStream, Pro-Mail and Webroot
For the third time in a row, OnlyMyEmail's MX-Defender stopped more spam than any of the other 19 competitors, missing only 16 spam messages out of 137,899 for a record spam filtering capture rate of 99.9883%.
By comparison, the next best capture rate was McAfee Email Gateway which missed 113 spam messages, which is a false-negative rate of over 700% worse than OnlyMyEmail's filtering. The average "false-negative" rate among the other 19 filtering systems was a whopping 645 missed spam messages and the median was 305.
The results from Virus Bulletin's VBSpam Challenge once again independently proves that OnlyMyEmail's MX-Defender is decisively superior to any other spam defense available today, including not only Software as a Service (SaaS) solutions but also hardware and software solutions as well.
In all, OnlyMyEmail accurately stopped far more spam than all of these other competing solutions: Anubis, BitDefender, FortiMail, GFI VIPRE, Kaspersky, Libra Esva, McAfee Email Gateway, McAfee EWS, MessageStream, Pro-Mail, Sophos, SPAMfighter, SpamTitan, Symantec Brightmail, The Email Laundry, Vade Retro, Vamsoft ORF, Webroot and Spamhaus.
OnlyMyEmail Tops Virus Bulletin Challenge Spam, Again
For the second time in a row, OnlyMyEmail's MX-Defender stops more spam than any other solution in the Virus Bulletin VBSpam Challenge.
In the latest anti-spam challenge, 20 filtering solutions were compared using a live email stream over 15 consecutive days. Once again, OnlyMyEmail's spam capture rate was the best of all, allowing just 16 out of 89,027 junk emails.
Even more impressive, several of the allowed emails were recognized by OnlyMyEmail as "direct marketing" and in the real world would have been either allowed or blocked based on end-user preferences.
For comparison, 7 of the solutions missed more than 500 spam messages and 2 even allowed delivery of more than 1,000 pieces of junk email.
In all, OnlyMyEmail accurately stopped more spam than any of these other competing solutions: Anubis, BitDefender, FortiMail, GFI VIPRE, Kaspersky, Libra Esva, McAfee Email Gateway, McAfee EWS, MessageStream, Pro-Mail, Sophos, SPAMfighter, SpamTitan, Symantec Brightmail, The Email Laundry, Vade Retro, Vamsoft ORF, Webroot and Spamhaus.
Virus Bulletin has included OnlyMyEmail's MX-Defender for the first time since they began their spam filtering challenge back in 2009.
In all, 20 filtering solutions were compared in the latest test and OnlyMyEmail's capture rate beat them all with a record capture rate, missing just 7 out of 92,606 junk emails.
That represents an astounding filtering rate of 99.9924% and, unlike tests and analysis published by others, this review was based on a live stream of email and not a static (and dated) corpus of test messages.
The next best blocking rates achieved by the next five contestants missed 29, 45, 51, 73 and 100 junk emails respectively. Four of the least effective spam filters missed more than 1,000 spam emails each.
In all, OnlyMyEmail accurately stopped more spam than any of the other competing solutions: Anubis, BitDefender, FortiMail, GFI VIPRE, Kaspersky, Libra Esva, McAfee Email Gateway, McAfee EWS, MessageStream, Pro-Mail, Sophos, SPAMfighter, SpamTitan, Symantec Brightmail, The Email Laundry, Vade Retro, Vamsoft ORF, Webroot and Spamhaus.
OnlyMyEmail Protects Children From Spam With OME-Kids
OnlyMyEmail, a provider of email services for consumers, corporations and Internet Service Providers, today announced the introduction of a Web-accessed email solution, OME-Kids, which will offer children protection from internet predators who try to reach kids through their email.
Of equal importance, the OME-Kids solution protects children from harmful e-marketers that conduct direct-marketing campaigns to children, as well. Further, unlike other solution providers, OnlyMyEmail will not accept payments from direct marketers to bypass its filters.
With the desire to provide a solution that is easy for parents and children to use, OME-Kids creators made sure no software or hardware is necessary. Parents can subscribe to, and kids can use, the Web-mail system using any standard Internet browser. Parents can also manage multiple OME-Kids email accounts via one screen.
By filtering and analyzing the complete content of a child's email and every facet of the communication - as opposed to only simple keyword or sender analysis that other companies offer - OME-Kids provides parents with a turn-key filtering solution that offers advanced filtering techniques not available anywhere else.
For example, OME-Kids has a No Permission-based Marketing Promise. While nearly every other provider accepts payments from direct-marketers to by-pass the email provider's filters, OnlyMyEmail makes a promise to its customers that it will not accept such offers and believes that customers deserves the right to email privacy.
Optional "Lock-Down" mode (most appropriate for very young children) only allows email delivery from senders who have first received parental approval.
Optional "Parental Review" saves copies of all email delivered to your children's OME-Kids addresses.
Optional "Kids Carbon Copy" sends the parent copies of all outbound messages sent from child's OME-Kids account.
All blocked messages may be easily released for delivery upon parental review and approval.
With advanced filtering techniques working on the back-end so that users (parents and children) have access to a seamless filtering solution with an Interface that is easy-to-use and parental control features that can be turned on or off with a simple click, OME's filtering solution offers 24/7 analysis of email communications - protecting children from potential predators, inappropriate direct marketing, email viruses and harmful email in practically every circumstance.
OnlyMyEmail, Inc. has released the OnlyMyEmail Encoder, a free tool for obscuring email addresses displayed on web sites.
Automated harvesting of openly exposed email addresses is widely regarded as the leading spam generating vulnerability today. Such exposed addresses are very easy to collect and are practically guaranteed to be valid and working addresses.
Furthermore, addresses harvested in this manner they are easily sorted by industry classification (based on the Web sites from which they are taken) for sales within targeted email marketing lists.
To help combat this problem and enable Webmasters and site owners to easily close this widely-exploited vulnerability, the OnlyMyEmail Encoder will generate JavaScript code that can be used to replace email addresses and the "mailto:" links that contain them.
JavaScript enabled browsers will render the address so that any web site visitors will see a normal looking text address or "mailto:" link, but address harvesting bots will not.
OnlyMyEmail Releases New Option for Reporting Spam
OnlyMyEmail, Inc. has released a new feature enabling end-users to report any spam emails that successfully evade OnlyMyEmail's MX-Defender anti-spam network.
As of now, end-users will no longer need to "forward" spam messages to OnlyMyEmail's Spam Review department, or be concerned with any special formatting or handling of these emails.
Instead, each message that passes through the MX-Defender spam/virus/fraud filtering system will contain an extra line at the very end of the email that will include a Spam Submission hyper-link.
Activating this hyper-link will automatically open a new browser window where users can confirm that a spam email was delivered when the MX-Defender should have actually blocked the message.
OnlyMyEmail's Network Administrator Bryan Rawlins points out that "While our spam filtering is already the most accurate in the industry, with reviews conducted by both PC Magazine and PC World showing a 99.6% filtering rate, we still wanted to provide users with a reporting mechanism that would enable us to push our accuracy even higher still."
Rawlins continues, "While it's not unheard of for software solutions to provide similar functionality, we're now likely the only enterprise solution capable of providing a simple way for end-users to report false-negatives in a manner that will have an immediate and direct impact on the spam-filtering engines."
OnlyMyEmail included in PC Magazine "Best of Year" list
OnlyMyEmail has earned a coveted place in PC Magazine's "Best of the Year" compilation.
The article represents a distillation that began with over 1,300 products reviewed by PC Magazine during the previous year, down to just 93 category winners representing best of breed solutions.
OnlyMyEmail had initially earned its entry for consideration on the "Best of the Year" list based on its anti-spam performance as tested in a previous review earlier in the year.
During that review, OnlyMyEmail was awarded an "Editors Choice Award" for its exceptional accuracy in terms of both correcting identifying spam (99.6%) while producing minimal critical false positive results.
OnlyMyEmail.com announces the release of version 4.3.9 of it's flagship anti-spam solution, the MX-Defender.
Used exclusively in conjunction with OnlyMyEmail's Corporate MX filtering, the MX-Defender is our first line defense against Spam Blast and Dictionary Attacks as well as from Directory Harvesting intrusions.
Because the MX-Defender blocks high-volume attacks from establishing a connection, corporate servers are spared from the unnecessary, and often overwhelming, load associated with such attacks.
While similar anti-spam firewalls exist, OnlyMyEmail's MX-Defender is unique in that it will not trigger false-positives because it is dynamically controlled in real-time by our 24-layer spam recognition filtering system. As a result, the MX-Defender is only invoked when confirmed high-volume spam attacks are under way and is then released immediately thereafter.
This approach means that corporate servers will be protected from mass-spammers, "open-relays" and even from hijacked "zombie" machines, but will then receive legitimate traffic from such compromised systems once the initial attack has completed.
OnlyMyEmail - Spamhaus Release - New Threats to RBL's
There's been much press coverage as of late in response to a press release from Spamhaus, the operators of a well-known DNS Block List (DNSBL).
The essence of the warning is that spammers now have tools that allow them to deliver spam through the up-stream providers of infected computers, or spam-bots.
This is in fact a new trend. Up until recently, an infected spam-bot would typically attempt to send email directly to the intended recipient's email server, and this made them somewhat easy to track. Once identified, their Internet Protocol (IP) address could be added to DNSBL's which are then used by recipient machines to determine whether or not delivery would be accepted.
In response to a growing number of Internet Service Providers (ISP) who elect to block outbound Port 25 connections (thus preventing spam-bots from sending directly to recipient's servers) and perhaps also in part to thwart DNSBL tracking, spammers such as Send-Safe.com now apparently send traffic through the machines legitimate ISP connection and servers.
While primarily a method that is in response to Port 25 blocking the additional consequence is that if DNSBL's continue to list the sending IP as the spam source, they will in effect be blocking ISP servers and this will result in the denial of considerable legitimate email as well.
For many DNSBL's this is a problem, as they do genuinely attempt to avoid interfering with legitimate email traffic. This new spam tactic will in fact render many of them unusable and obsolete.
However, as the vast majority of DNSBL's actually do block quite a bit of legitimate email, (OnlyMyEmail itself has been erroneously listed by some of them) this consequence is not new, it has simply been amplified.
While this would appear to be bad news for DNSBLs and the system administrators who use them, the long-term impact is actually favorable for the average Internet user.
By forcing system administrators to take more comprehensive and accurate measures, less legitimate email will be blocked than is today. In short, without the inaccurate crutch of DNSBL's email administration will evolve in its accuracy.
On the other hand, many DNSBL's actually appear to embrace the blocking of legitimate email, considering it to be necessary and useful "collateral damage" which they feel will put greater pressure on ISP's to remove spammers from their networks.
Likely the most notorious of this breed of DNSBL is the Spam Prevention Early Warning System (SPEWS) which, as a matter of practice, will list not just a specific spamming IP address but will widen their listing to include IP ranges that might include hundreds or thousands of innocent bystanders.
The logic behind their peculiar tactic is that the bystanders will either complain enough to the ISP to force removal of the spammer, or they will change providers, thus costing the ISP business and thereby leveraging financial pressure for them to do a better job of policing their network.
Despite the appealing perversion of this guerilla warfare, the outcome is seldom as desired as the innocent victims don't typically respond as desired and the spammers can simply move on.
While many respected and well-run DNSBL's such as Spamhaus will no doubt adjust to the newer spam tactics, many of the more vigilante oriented services will find themselves obsolete as system administrators begin to realize the impact of their cavalier attitude toward legitimate email delivery.
In the end analysis, the tactic of sending spam though up-stream providers will actually greatly benefit the typical end-user.
DNSBL's that cannot or will not adjust and provide acceptable precision will become obsolete.
System administrators will be forced to implement more accurate anti-spam techniques that will increase the delivery of legitimate email.
ISP's will be in a better position to track spammers and spam-bots on their own networks, thus reducing the actual amount of spam being sent.
Combined, the result of the above represents the potential for an important step to actually solving the spam problem.
For the new year, the shift in Spam is convincingly and dramatically toward more online identity theft schemes, commonly referred to as Phishing frauds. Such frauds are attempts to trick email recipients into divulging personal and financial information through spoofed web sites that are convincing replicas of legitimate online services.
OnlyMyEmail is currently tracking Phishing frauds at an astounding 1.28 percent of all email crossing our anti-spam networks.
The vast majority of Phishing frauds claim to be from just a few well-known companies. In fact, according to Steven P. Burkett, Vice President of Development at OnlyMyEmail, 94.8% of current frauds are spoofing just four domains."
OnlyMyEmail's network traffic lists these top domains and their percentage of all Phishing fraud:
49.7% Citizensbank.com
26.4% TCFexpress.com
14.7% Wamu.com
4% Paypal.com
"Among the remaining 5% of Phishing campaigns, we see many of the names that were high volume spoofs from previous weeks and months" say's Burkett.
The trend in fraud appears to be a constant rotation of these Phishing campaigns as soon as enough publicity makes consumers wary of current risks. Burkett suggests that: "This explains why names such as Paypal, Southtrust, Suntrust, Wellsfargo, E-bay and others now barely register on our network in comparison to the top four."
As a consequence, OnlyMyEmail expects this rotation to continue. Just as the same spammers change the products they are pitching on a regular basis, it appears that those involved in Phishing frauds will continually rotate the sites they spoof.
What remains consistent among most Phishing campaigns are the subject matter and tone of the emails. These frauds commonly include fraud prevention claims in their subject lines (with countless variations) such as:
"Important Fraud Alert"
"ATM PIN Checking"
"Verification of the Internet Banking Accounts"
"Security alert!"
"Debit Card Update required, fraud protection"
Breaking from this trend, the occasional Phishing fraud will offer an "online bonus" or service such as "automatic bill payment" enrollment, but these are clearly in the minority.
The content of Phishing emails are almost uniformly consistent in that they all attempt to entice the user to "log in" to the faked version of the vendor's site. Common warnings designed to entice compliance include:
"The new updated technologies will ensure the security of your payments through our bank. This security update will be effective immediately."
"Your account has been randomly flagged in our system as a part of our routine security measures."
"We recently have determined that different computers have logged onto your Online Banking account, and multiple passwords failures were present before the logins."
In order to protect existing anti-spam clients, OnlyMyEmail's response has been to add a separate layer of filtering specifically to address Phishing fraud emails. Burkett explains that: "Spam filtering techniques will sometimes miss these types of fraudulent emails because their content appears legitimate and many of the links in these spoofed emails would actually link to the legitimate vendor sites."
OnlyMyEmail's Phishing protection process is now positioned very early in their filtering layers and clearly marks such emails as "Fraud" so that OnlyMyEmail's clients understand why such messages were blocked.
Burkett continues: "We had to run the fraud detection early and change the way we report because when we blocked these campaigns as spam, clients would often report them as "false positives" thinking that our system had accidentally blocked a legitimate notice from their bank. That's how convincing some of these campaigns are today."
OnlyMyEmail.com has achieved a long sought mile-stone in anti-spam accuracy. For the first time, OnlyMyEmail clients protected from spam, viruses, and phishing emails (identity theft frauds) were spared from 99.73% of unwanted messages with a critical-false-positive rate (CFP) of less than 1 per Million emails.
Blocking in excess of 99.5% of spam with a false-positive-rate of less than 1 per Million has long been the "Holy Grail" within anti-spam circles and also a primary business performance objective for OnlyMyEmail.
Steven P. Burkett, Vice President of Development at OnlyMyEmail explains that "There are countless anti-spam solutions that can block 90% of junk email, but beyond that usually requires substantial system training for the end-user and inevitably results in an unacceptable CFP rate. After two years, we've finally delivered on our goal of above 99.5% blocking yet with less than 1 CFP per Million."
Users such as Hal Borns, Owner, Virtual Virgin Islands, Inc, Web Site Design, (St-Thomas.com) estimates that his company saves "1-2 hours per day" and says the OnlyMyEmail system delivers "my real emails of under 20 per day from about 800 junk emails that come in."
"At this point, the OnlyMyEmail system is more accurate than the human who is receiving the email" says Burkett. In fact, he adds: "Our users often mistake some of the more sophisticated spam, viruses and phishing messages that we block as false-positives, when in fact they're not." He adds: "We often have to contact users to warn them that the email they thought was a false-positive really was a fraudulent email attempting to trick them into divulging personal and financial information."
OnlyMyEmail has relentlessly focused on reducing the CFP rate because false-positives are the number one concern for corporate clients and business users when they evaluate anti-spam solutions.
OnlyMyEmail blocks nearly 900 emails a day for Doug Towes, Director of Web Development, RNC Internet Services, (RNCinternet.com) who says: "I have learned to have complete confidence in their spam blocking and I no longer bother to check to see if a legitimate email has been blocked."
Such accuracy and reliability is particularly important to Internet Service Providers who must deal with any customer fallout that occurs when good email is accidentally deleted. Wayne Bibbens, President of Bibbens Communications Internet, Inc. (BCI.net) says: "Most weeks there are no blocks that are reported by any of our Internet customers."
Shellie Mathe, Co-Owner, MatheTeam, Inc, Real Estate Company, (OshKoshHomes.com), clearly recognizes that accuracy is most important criteria for selecting an anti-spam solution. She states: "Before using OnlyMyEmail I would spend an hour and sometimes two trying to pick the valid message out of the spam. On a number of occasions important e-mail never reached me because it got lost in the mess. Missed e-mail means missed business or a customer that doesn't get the attention they need."
Pleased with OnlyMyEmail's results and insistent that further gains can be made, Burkett adds: "We're confident that we have the most accurate anti-spam solution on the market, and are intent on keeping our position as such."
OnlyMyEmail, Inc., a technology leader in accuracy for anti-spam systems announces a new record low in their "critical-false-positive" (CFP) results for September 2004.
Critical-false-Positives are legitimate emails that have been incorrectly identified as spam and that would most likely be considered important by the intended recipient. Examples include both personal and business correspondences as well as automated messages confirming online transactions.
OnlyMyEmail's September CFP rate was a record low of just 4 instances per Million emails. By contrast, most leading anti-spam solutions would have resulted in 2,500 such CFPs based on a rate of just one quarter of one-percent, which is ordinarily considered a very good rate within the anti-spam industry.
This milestone of 4 CFP per Million has been achieved as a result of OnlyMyEmail's long-standing operational goal of reducing CFPs to a rate that is more accurate than any existing competitor, and even end-user recognition.
Because corporate users cannot afford the loss of legitimate messages from customers, clients and prospects the CFP rate is often the single most important factor used in anti-spam vendor selection.
While it is theoretically possible to have a lower CFP rate, no other system has proven this ability without allowing for a significant percentage of spam delivery as a result.
For example, an anti-spam system can rely exclusively on "honey-pot" accounts for spam recognition (those not used to receive legitimate email) in order to potentially reduce CFP rates. However, in real world applications, such solutions typically capture no more than 90% to 91% of inbound spam.
In the past, such a low spam capture rate was often acceptable to many corporate users. However, with the continued increase in the amount of spam being delivered to corporate servers, such systems are now permitting the delivery of too much unwanted email to still be considered effective.
OnlyMyEmail's record of continuously capturing over 99% of spam and email distributed viruses for its corporate clients, while maintaining a CFP of just 4 per Million has been unmatched by any competitor, making it the most accurate and reliable anti-spam system available today.
The July issue of PC World is now shipping and includes the 23rd. Annual World Class Award recipients.
Billed as "The 100 Best Products of 2005" the list covers a wide variety of hardware, software and Web services, including two entries in the anti-spam category.
Not only has OnlyMyEmail been included in this prestigious list, but has been ranked 18th on the 100 top technologies for the year.
This is quite an achievement for us, and coming in at just two spots below Google clearly speaks to the frustration that all Internet users experience with the ongoing spam assaults against their email accounts.
Combined with the receipt of PC Magazine's Editors' Choice Award earlier in the year, OnlyMyEmail has now received the two top-honors from the two leading and most widely recognized publications in the technology industry.
Anti-spam solution provider OnlyMyEmail.com reports another all-time high in spam emails sent to their clients.
Setting another record since the CAN-SPAM act went into effect last January, OnlyMyEmail blocked 83% of incoming email last week as being unsolicited commercial spam. On top of this record-setting rate, this calculation does not include messages stopped by client's personalized "block" lists within the OnlyMyEmail system.
In addition, another 1.4% of emails sent to clients in the same time period were viruses and prevented from being delivered as well.
The highest days for spam as a percentage of all email include both Saturday and Sunday, with spam rates typically exceeding 90% as a result of the reduction in legitimate business email during the weekend. On a volume basis, spammers are most active on Mondays and Tuesdays.
Remarkably, while earlier in the year several days of each week would drop down to lower spam rates in the mid to high 70% range this is no longer the case. In this last record-setting week, not a single day contained less than 80% spam in the incoming delivery stream.
While OnlyMyEmail's clients are more likely to receive a somewhat higher percentage of spam emails, the trend of escalating spam clearly continues despite both legislation and ongoing legal actions against known spammers.
OnlyMyEmail detects growth in new "Hate-Spam" category
OnlyMyEmail, Inc. an anti-spam and email virus filtering provider has detected a new breed of Spam, termed Hate-Spam where the senders are exploiting existing spam networks for the purpose of spreading anti-Semitic email messages.
While the category is new, there has been rapid growth in mass email campaigns carrying such disturbing statements such as:
Jewish Nation Sucks -- kill them
Do not support Israel
Israeli's controlling USA
Israeli's Trying to Control USA in next 12 Years so guys beware now before it's too late.
These messages, among other variations, are originating from services previously seen sending more garden-variety commercial spam. They are typically very short, contain no hyper-links or commercial solicitations and are written in extremely poor grammar.
Almost all of the messages seen to date are spoofing addresses that claim to originate from Internet connections within Israel itself, but actually are coming from the far East, including: Taiwan, China, Korea and Malaysia.
What remains unknown regarding these campaigns is whether the existing spam networks in use are actually being compensated for sending Hate-Spam.
"It's possible" according to OnlyMyEmail analysts, "that spammers are being paid to send these messages, but they may be using their networks to express their own views or simply may be probing networks for valid email addresses and are simply using the hateful content to distract from their real objective."
While Hate-Spam has just appeared in the last few days, it is already taking up a measurable amount of bandwidth for domains protected by OnlyMyEmail's spam filtering services.
Whether this will be a sustained new category of spam that continues to grow, or will simply run its course remains to be seen.
Spam and virus protection service OnlyMyEmail announces the release of its new SpamReports service for corporate and enterprise clients.
Because IT staff can often be overwhelmed dealing with employee and customer inquires regarding blocked spam, and the perception that important emails may have been blocked, support staff costs can actually escalate once effective anti-spam measures are implemented within any organization.
To overcome this issue, OnlyMyEmail's SpamReports provides a daily update of all messages that have been removed from client accounts. Reports are automatically delivered by email and are segregated by address.
To further reduce IT staff support involvement, SpamReports contains active hyperlinks to deleted messages and allows end-users to not only access blocked email, but also the ability to resend original messages, all without support intervention.
For IT administrators at ISPs and large corporations SpamReports significantly reduces, or even eliminates, the staff time required servicing employee and customer inquires related to blocked email.
This new feature can be enabled by domain, allowing IT staff managing multiple domains to selectively use SpamReports as they deem appropriate for their enterprise.
OnlyMyEmail awarded PC Magazine "Editor's Choice Award"
PC Magazine has reviewed OnlyMyEmail's anti-spam solution and gave it their Editor's Choice Award for exceptional accuracy combined with ease of use and minimal critical false-positive results.
PC Magazine's testing rated overall spam recognition at 99.6% and were achieved without any system training, rule creation or adjustments on the part of PC Magazine staff.
As of this release, OnlyMyEmail is currently the only Editor's Choice Award recipient with an overall rating of 4.5 Stars within the anti-spam category.
Anti-spam provider, OnlyMyEmail, Inc. has enabled a fully functional online demonstration account that will allow members of the press to log onto the OnlyMyEmail system and to intereact with our Corporate MX spam/virus fitlering interface.
This "test drive" enables writers and reviewers to see exactly how corporate clients can manage their OnlyMyEmail accounts.
This system is fully functional, including management of preferences, filters, addresses and even searching and viewing of actual deleted emails.
Live demonstration accounts can be activated and available within 1 business day of contacting OnlyMyEmail's media department.
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