Re: Corporate spam filter

MXLogic has a great product that we have been using for over three years 
with no problems.  $.50 per user per month with a min chg of $50 per month.

The great thing with them is they filter the mail BEFORE it reaches your 
network, anything they block is reported to the end user at which time they 
can decide whether to release it (have it sent on to them) or have it 
deleted.

Our bankwidth usage dropped a full 19 points after we started using them.

If you have further information, send me a quick note and I will pass along 
the info.




On Wed, 19 Apr 2006 22:13:39 -0700, Tom Jedrzejewicz wrote
> On 4/19/06, QSCANFSCTL <QSCANFSCTL@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > >From what I've seen on the net Mailwatch prices range from $5 to $2 per
> > user
> > per month. If that's still the case then Mailwatch would be 3 to 6 times
> > more expensive than a StandGuard Anti-Virus subscription. Also, SGAV
> > provides many additional features like on-access scanning, on-demand
> > scanning, object integrity scanning, partition scanning, ..., that would
> > not
> > be included in a service like Mailwatch. Likewise Mailwatch provides
> > valuable features like spam and content filtering. I'm not saying
> > Mailwatch
> > is not worth looking into by any means, just trying to clarify a point
> > that
> > could be taken the wrong way.
> >
> > On the plus side they are using the McAfee scanning engine which is
> > excellent.
> 
> I mean no disparagement to SGAV and was not clear on my point. 
>  Obviously, SGAV offers substantially more functionality.  But if 
> the primary driver for running SGAV is to protect the email, and 
> they are going with an anti-spam service anyway, then MailWatch 
> might effectively cost less because of reduced A/V costs.  If SGAV 
> is doing more than mail, then it's cost is irrelevant to the discussion.
> 
> In the interest of clarity ...
> -- based on my experience you overstate the MailWatch charges 
substantially.
> -- MailWatch uses the McAfee engine and also scans with the Clam (
> http://www.clamav.net/) engine.
> -- I find that having the spam and virus kept outside of my network 
> to be a huge plus for the hosted services like MailWatch.  My mail 
> server never sees the spam, and the viruses don't get near to my network.
> 
> If I were starting from scratch, I would probably have email hosted 
> by a third party (perhaps http://www.centerbeam.com/) and side-step 
> this issue entirely.
> 
> Take care
> 
> --
> Tom Jedrzejewicz
> tomjedrz@xxxxxxxxx
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