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Ipswitch's IMailer Server Offers Smart Technology for Email Servers

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October 29, 2009

Ipswitch's IMailer Server Offers Smart Technology for Email Servers

By Amy Tierney, TMCnet Web Editor


Email scams are everywhere, particularly those asking recipients for money. While many companies and consumers, alike, have taken steps to protect their computers and inboxes from spam, others aren’t quite sure what to do.
 
But officials from Ipswitch, Inc., a Lexington, Mass.-based developer of business-class messaging applications, are offering tips to help people decide what to do with suspicious email.
 
According to a recent posting in The MX Record, the company’s blog, email users have several options to choose from when receiving unsolicited email. Recipients can either delete it or skim through it and look for some quick humor before deleting the message.

 
Ipswitch’s (News - Alert) Renee Hewlett wrote that people can also send a witty “return to sender” comment. Or those Internet users with some ingenuity can devise a reverse scam and try to turn the tables on the scammer.
 
But in the end, some Internet users still fall prey to email scam campaigns. According to a Times Online report, spammers receive one response for every 12.5 million emails that are sent. 
 
To help business and consumers that can’t decipher a scam, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commissionis teaming up with companies like Microsoft (News - Alert) to use smart technology to track down fraudulent emails and build a warning system for targets of a scam. 
 
So far, more than 800 emails have been identified and shut down in Nigeria, reportedly the country with the highest number of fraudulent email, Ipswitch’s in the company’s blog.
 
This week, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation issued a warning that it has received a number of reports regarding a fraudulent email that is reportedly being sent on its behalf. Yet, the FDIC said it doesn’t issue unsolicited e-mails to consumers. It is advising financial institutions and consumers not to follow the link in the e-mail.
 
The subject line asks recipients to check their bank deposit insurance coverage. It tells readers that they hold a FDIC-insured bank account and that the FDIC named the bank where the account was opened as a failed bank and has taken control of its assets.
 
The e-mail then asks recipients to “visit the official FDIC Web site and check their “Deposit Insurance Coverage” which leads readers to a fraudulent link. It instructs people to download and open their personal FDIC Insurance File to check their Deposit Insurance Coverage.
 
It is one of many recent email spam campaigns that have been that have found their way into users email boxes.
 
Ipswitch officials said its IMail Server solution can help protect companies’ assets from such spam campaigns. The technology blends content filtering technology that inspects incoming, outgoing, and internal email communications.
 
Powered by Symantec (News - Alert) and provided by BitDefender, IMail Server offers weekly virus definitions update and also updates itself if a major outbreak offers. The software also features spyware and adware scanning, and administrator alerts.
 
The company’s recently launched IMail Server Premium Security Bundle adds Symantec anti-virus protection and anti-spam protection from Commtouch (News - Alert). The bundle uses Commtouch's GlobalView Mail Reputation Service, which blocks unwanted email at the perimeter to reduce most incoming messages before they enter the network. Commtouch blocks more than 98 percent of spam with any content, format, or language, Ipswitch said.

Amy Tierney is a Web editor for TMCnet, covering business communications Her areas of focus include conferencing, SIP, Fax over IP, unified communications and telepresence. Amy also writes about education and healthcare technology, overseeing production of e-Newsletters on those topics as well as communications solutions and UC. To read more of Amy's articles, please visit her columnist page.

Edited by Amy Tierney







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