MailWasher Pro Now Has a New and Improved Trait-based Bayesian Spam Filtering Engine
Firetrust announces MailWasher Pro 5.0 with powerful new features allowing for intelligent filtering and spam detection using a new trait based Bayesian spam filtering engine.
Christchurch, New Zealand (PRWEB) May 27, 2005 -- Firetrust Limited, provider
of award-winning anti-spam and email security solutions, today announced the
latest release of MailWasher Pro 5.0, a popular anti-spam tool which provides
both businesses and individuals protection from unsolicited and unwanted emails.
MailWasher Pro 5.0 provides users with the power to overcome the tactics
employed by spammers through a new trait based Bayesian spam filtering engine
which stops spam from invading their email inboxes.
The engine employs
more than 50 programmed traits which detect such behaviors as misspelled words,
garbled words and white text on a white background. Trait based filtering
ensures greatly improved spam detection. MailWasher Pro 5.0 is fully trained
after processing only 100 emails by the user.
"The recent Sober worm
variant has been a timely reminder that the war against spam continues and
clearly points to a need for users to employ an intelligent solution that
filters out dangerous and unwanted email," said Nick Bolton, Firetrust CEO and
founder. "MailWasher Pro solves the biggest problems facing email users by
preventing unwanted email reaching the user's inbox and eliminating spam. By
being easy-to-use and requiring only a small amount of training to configure the
program to work best for the user, makes it an ideal solution for not only
consumers but for businesses too," he said.
Innocent computer users are
unknowingly sending out unwanted email as the Sober worm takes control of their
PCs. Most of the messages contain links to news items containing right-wing
political stories and many contain links to a website that attempts to infect
visiting machines with a virus. This latest piece of malware highlights the
links between virus writers and spammers and reinforces the need for everyone to
deploy regularly updated antivirus and antispam software as well as a
firewall.
MailWasher Pro 5.0 is Firetrust's effective, easy-to-use
software that protects users from dangerous e-mail scams and stops all spam. New
features include a new trait-based Bayesian spam filtering engine, and full
unicode support to display foreign language characters.
- Trait-based
Bayesian Spam Filtering Engine: Trait based filtering ensures highly accurate
spam detection by identifying the traits of spam emails aided by training from
the user. Traits such as mispelled words, garbled words, white text on a white
background are some of the more than 50 traits built into MailWasher Pro's new
bayesian filtering. The Bayesian system learns and adapts from what the user
considers spam. MailWasher Pro is fully trained after training 100 emails by the
user.
- Unicode Support: Full Unicode support for global languages allows
users to check email in any language by displaying foreign language character
sets.
"We're very pleased with the new version and we've been overwhelmed
with the amount of praise we've received from our users. MailWasher Pro 5.0 has
solved their spam problem quickly with its improved spam catching ability, while
its false-positive rate is still extremely low," said Nick
Bolton.
MailWasher Pro's advanced e-mail security features protect users
from phishing scams, identity-theft and other forms of email fraud and provides
the easiest-to-use and most effective spam filter available.
Unlike other
anti-spam solutions which are integrated into the email client, MailWasher Pro
works outside the email client, so users are better protected and eliminate the
risk of downloading 100% of unwanted messages or viruses and worms. By reviewing
and deleting content at the email server, users are protected from objectionable
content including graphics, web bugs are rendered inactive, bandwidth is
protected, and viruses and malicious script is stopped from spreading. Users can
preview, delete and blacklist unwanted email.
To receive a fully licensed
version of MailWasher Pro 5.0 for review, please contact e-mail protected from
spam bots
System Requirements and Availability
MailWasher Pro is now
available as a download from Firetrust's website at www.firetrust.com. MailWasher
Pro is priced at U.S. $37.00 for a single-user license, which includes a
one-year subscription to First Alert!
** Price discounts are available
for volume licensing. A free 30-day trial version can also be downloaded from
the site. MailWasher Pro minimum system requirements include Microsoft Windows
98, Me, NT, 2000 and XP operating systems. It is compatible with all pop3 e-mail
programs, including, Microsoft OutlookT and Outlook ExpressT, NetscapeT and
EudoraT; AOL, IMAP, MSN and Hotmail e-mail accounts.
About Firetrust
Limited
Established in 2000, Firetrust provides world-class e-mail security
products for business and home users. Firetrust delivers solutions across the
spectrum of inbox protection, including MailWasherR Pro for unsolicited
commercial e-mail (spam) and BenignR to neutralize harmful e-mail which can
contain viruses, worms, scripts and web bugs. The company is privately held and
headquartered in Christchurch, New Zealand. To date MailWasher has had more than
four million downloads. For more information, please visit www.firetrust.com.
MailWasherR and BenignR are registered trademarks of Firetrust Limited.
**All existing MailWasher Pro users are invited to subscribe to First
Alert! at a reduced rate of U.S. $7.00 for a one-year subscription. After the
first year the price increases to U.S. $9.95 annually.
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