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Subject: IBM's "Big Blue" eats spam & a little more Author: Betty [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ] Date Posted: 02:44:52 06/21/04 Mon In reply to: Betty-repost 's message, "PCs infested with 30 pieces of spyware" on 11:05:02 04/16/04 Fri IBM Launched an email security service that will read a company’s emails and strip out viruses, spam and messages carrying offensive images. The Big Blue Big Brother Spam eater service was developed with MessageLabs, and IBM plans to flog it across the known world. Essentially it is a managed security service, something that IBM has been making shitloads on lately Most companies use third-party software to filter viruses and spam hope that their staff can keep the programs running and up to date. But this is becoming a hard job, the amount of spam and other material has increased dramatically. MessageLabs handled more than 50 million messages a day for more than 9000 companies. Two-thirds of the email routed through MessageLabs' network in May was stripped as spam and about nine per cent carried viruses. One user, Eden, a software-development company, piloted the IBM email security service for three weeks and said its spam volume had dropped 97 per cent. An Eden spinster said the company had been paying its email hosting company to filter its email, but 100,000 messages a day were still getting through. However, it did not say how many critical emails were eaten by the IBM system by mistake. Nor did Eden say what the impact on staff morale was when they discovered that swearing in emails would result in it being eaten. [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ]

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Subject Author Date World internet speed record broken Betty 03:00:49 06/21/04 Mon Meanwhile, my home speed. Betty 03:25:03 06/21/04 Mon