Spam Filtering

According to Barracuda Networks realtime Spam Monitor, the percentages of spam filtered in 2008 averages 92% daily.

Spam is the flooding of the internet with thousands or even millions of copies of the same message, sent to users across the globe who never requested any information. Most spam takes on the form of an advertisement for a product or service, often coming from illegitimate sources. Email spammers gather addresses by searching websites for email addresses, scouring mailing lists and retrieving addresses of all subscribers, and by buying lists of email addresses from companies that harvest this information when users ‘register’ for a product or service. If you have an email address, by now it has probably made its way onto more than one of these lists.

Fortunately, there are solutions for this ever-growing problem. Anti-spam software can control the situation and greatly reduce the amount of unwanted messages that appear in your in-box daily. We currently recommend anti-spam technology based on an intelligent learning algorithm, which will analyze all of your email traffic and learn what is spam and what is valid communication. This type of solution tailors the spam filter’s tolerance to your unique business needs, minimizing the occurrence of false-positives and false-negatives. Over 95% of all unwanted email can typically be filtered with such a solution, thereby unclogging email inboxes and freeing your employees from having to manually filter through spam.

Synergistic Networks uses this type of intelligent spam-filtering solution both internally as well as for numerous customers. Every corporation feels the burden of unwanted email daily, and we can help your business manage this ever-growing problem. Please contact us to learn more about what we can do for your organization.