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Keeping the Junk Email Out
My company broke a new record the other day. In a single 24 hour period our anti-spam solution removed over 40,000 spam and malware from our inbound email traffic. What an astounding number for a small business. Consider how much time was saved by removing all of this junk email before it hit our email inbox.
Spam and junk email in general takes on average 1-3 seconds to deal with per piece. There are also security implications of allowing this type of email to get through on your network. Every spam email that gets through has a chance to infect a system or network. Although most spam are benign and annoying, the truly clever spam are typically phishing for passwords or looking to install some type of malware on your computer. All it takes is clicking on one wrong link or email.
Products that install on your computer to filter out this junk are mediocre in terms of a real solution. They take management, configuration and many times need to be trained to become “smarter” not to mention the fact the junk email is still getting into your network or computer, the software is just dealing with it.
A truly effective approach to spam and junk mail removal is in a system such as ClearMail. Clean and filter your email before it ever gets to your organization. You can also configure your firewall so spammers can’t email you directly. This type of system keeps all responsibility off the users and removes all junk before it ever gets to the inbox. ClearMail even queue’s your email in case of a server outage or you lose your Internet connection, resulting in no loss of email.
With an effective anti-spam solution in place you won’t waste any more time clicking and deleting, or changing email addresses every other year. The savings in time alone is well worth the solution.
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