Impressive Numbers: SPAMfighter Filters Over 500 Million Spam Mails Monthly
(PRWeb) December 7, 2006 -- SPAMfighter is now filtering over 500 million spam mails each month. With the record breaking number of spam mails being sent to users daily, SPAMfighter is fighting hard against the spammers by blocking more spam mails for users worldwide.
"We are successfully fighting against the spammers by making sure that these e-mails never reach the inboxes of users, thus making their spam mails ineffective" States Martin Thorborg.
SPAMfighter filters over 500 million spam mails each month. The SPAMfighter filter is constantly being updated in order to best fight against the latest forms of spam. The spammers are constantly developing new ways to slip past spam filters, making it crucial for SPAMfighter to stay on top of these new forms of spam.
By staying updated on new tricks used by the spammers, SPAMfighter is able to filter out millions of spam mails from e-mails users. This saves users hours of work sorting through spam and legitimate e-mails. Users are also saved from becoming a victim to scams such as phishing. A phishing e-mail is one that steals the identity of a corporation, usually a bank, and tries to scam personal details from unsuspecting e-mail users.
SPAMfighter works by scanning e-mails as they arrive into a users inbox. If the e-mail is determined to be spam, it is filtered away from the users inbox, making it so the user never has to see it. More spam being sent to e-mail users, means it is becoming necessary to have an effective spam filter which can filter out these annoying, and sometimes offensive spam mails.
SPAMfighter is Europe's leading spam filter developer. The Danish company is owned by the founders of Jubii.dk, Henrik Sørensen and Martin Thorborg, together with two programmers, Daniel Hjortholt and Martin Dyring. SPAMfighter employs 25 people and is based in Copenhagen. SPAMfighter is debt-free and is 100 per cent financed by income from the sale of the SPAMfighter client. Each day, SPAMfighter removes around 16 million spam messages from 21 million tested emails received by over 2 million users in 213 countries/regions.
SPAMfighter draws its power from the fact that over 2.1 million users report spam as they receive it, with a single click. Once several users have reported the same spam message, it is automatically filtered for all other users. The result is that 95 percent of all spam is filtered out before it reaches any given user.
For more information, contact Martin Thorborg, SPAMfighter ApS, Rovsingsgade 88, DK-2200 Copenhagen N, Denmark. Phone: +45 7022 1551 Fax (Europe): +45 3323 0376 Fax (USA) +1 (347) 341-4657
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