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Brightmail's new software tackles zombies
News Brightmail has released a new version of its anti-spam software, Anti-Spam 6.0, which includes features designed to deal with zombie PCs, an improved ability to deal with foreign-language spam and a Web-based management console.
[July 1, 2004, 14:30]
Ruling Out Spam With Symantec Brightmail AntiSpam and Help From Capital Technologies Ltd. Saves a Law Firm $323,000 a Year
White Papers Then the firm deployed Symantec Brightmail AntiSpam software. Spam makes up as much as 50 percent of the email that New Zealand law firm Kensington Swan receives each day. A custom antispam solution stopped 30 percent of that spam, but users still...
[September 5, 2006, 0:00]
Symantec Brightmail Antispam 6.0 Evaluation Guide: Service Provider Edition
White Papers Over 2,500 businesses, governments, and organizations - including more than 90 service providers such as EarthLink, HotMail, MSN, Telstra, Terra Mexico - worldwide have embraced Symantec Brightmail AntiSpam.
[November 14, 2007, 0:01]
GFI MailEssentials & GFI MailSecurity VS Symantec Brightmail 6 & Anti Virus
White Papers GFI MailSecurity uses multiple virus scanners to scan inbound email. Using multiple scanners drastically reduces the average time to obtain virus signatures which combat the latest threats, and therefore greatly reduces the chances of an infection.
[June 20, 2009, 1:21]
Quadrupling the Catch Rate of Image-Based Spam With Symantec Brightmail Helps Keep Inboxes Spam-Free at Leading Email Service Provider
White Papers USA.NET, a message service hosting provider, saw the quality of its message services threatened by a jump in image-based spam in late 2006. Symantec analysts developed new tools and techniques for an antispam solution that more than quadrupled the...
[June 20, 2007, 1:00]
Spam growth increases during March
News Anti-spam firm Brightmail recorded a 4 percent month-on-month increase in the amount of spam detected by its Probe Network. According to Brightmail's figures, the most common scam is the notorious and typically Nigerian-based 419 con, where...
[April 9, 2003, 10:55]
Staying one step ahead in the anti-spam arms race
News When I joined Brightmail three years ago, 8 percent of emails were spam. Brightmail, recently acquired by security specialist Symantec, is a market leader in the spam-filtering industry, and is expected to announce a major upgrade of its software...
[June 16, 2004, 10:30]
Symantec to buy spam-blocker
News Security specialist Symantec announced on Wednesday that it plans to pay $370m (£209m) to acquire Brightmail, a maker of tools for blocking spam and viruses. Brightmail, which filed the preliminary paperwork for an initial public offering in March...
[May 20, 2004, 9:20]
December inboxes clogged with junk mail
News According to anti-spam firm Brightmail the amount of spam being sent worldwide is still increasing month-on-month, with December showing a 7 percent increase over November's levels. A report from Brightmail reveals that 80 percent of all of...
[January 10, 2003, 14:06]
Christmas brings inbox overload
News Alarmingly, as we approach Christmas 2002, spam filtering firm Brightmail has released figures which show spam now accounts for 40 percent of all email. Brightmail's statistics show the amount of spam is still rising month on month -- a fact which...
[December 13, 2002, 11:04]
Spam could soon be majority of email
News Although spam still accounts for nearly 25 percent of the email sent to Cypress, with Brightmail, Cypress employees don't see most of the junk messages. The problems were mostly just a nuisance, but they were a large nuisance," said Bell, who...
[August 29, 2002, 15:15]
Porn spammers ignore new labelling rule
News Brightmail, an anti-spam company in San Francisco, said that it measured 2 billion junk email messages in the 40-hour period last week after the FTC rule took effect. But a Brightmail representative said many of those sex-labelled messages still...
[May 27, 2004, 11:30]
Spammers flout law
News As much as 60 percent of email sent in January was spam, up from 58 percent in December, according to Brightmail, one of the largest spam-filtering companies. We're seeing more spam than ever," said Ken Schneider, chief technology officer at...
[February 11, 2004, 8:20]
Symantec snaps up MessageLabs for SaaS
News MessageLabs already uses Brightmail in its online services, and [the deal] gives customers the opportunity to use new form factors. Hausman said that MessageLabs's hosted email service, combined with Symantec's Brightmail capabilities, would give...
[October 8, 2008, 16:19]
Spam: Still out of control
News Brightmail, which provides filters to several major ISPs including AT&T WorldNet, has doubled its number of enterprise customers in the past six months because of corporate headaches with spam. In the past six months, the volume of junk mail sent...
[March 21, 2002, 14:07]
Symantec chief Thompson to retire
News From 1990 to 1999 he worked in the security business unit at the company before rejoining the company in 2004 with Symantec's acquisition of Brightmail, an anti-spam company. There, Salem had served as Brightmail's president and chief executive.
[November 18, 2008, 9:25]
Web standards group to tackle spam
News According to spam-fighter Brightmail, unsolicited bulk mail volumes skyrocketed last year, now accounting for close to a third of all traffic on the Internet, up from just 8 percent of traffic in mid-2001.
[March 6, 2003, 14:01]
Spam bill making headway in US Pt II
News Brightmail thinks it's got the best solution available. Clients who use Brightmail's service immediately stop all copies of that e-mail from hitting customers. According to a study the company funded, performed by eTesting Labs (formerly ZD Labs...
[June 16, 2000, 11:52]
Spam bill making headway in US Pt I
News According to Brightmail, which sponsored that study, the distributed costs of spam exceed $1bn (£0.66bn) per year in server space, telecommunications costs and wasted employee time. Brightmail, which monitors the amount of 'spam attacks' as part of...
[June 16, 2000, 11:25]
Symantec announces product upgrades
News The first product, Symantec Brightmail Gateway 8.0, has anti-spam and antivirus capabilities, along with outbound email-content filtering, and is the latest iteration of a product that used to be called Symantec Mail Security.
[October 7, 2008, 17:18]
