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Anti-Spam Directory
ISP-Planet's anti-spam directory offers you a quick overview of the promising but challenging variety of spam solutions on the market. Check back frequently because new solutions are appearing every day.
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Anti-spam products offered to ISPs are no longer mere ports of enterprise systems; most companies now build specific products for the ISP market. There are many options available, and each ISP should be able to find a suitable product.
| Product and Company | Founded | Service |
| Most Recent Article | ||
| Abaca |
2005 in San Jose, CA |
This company, founded by Propel founder Kirsch, has a unique recipient reputation system (patent pending). Software is priced per user and ISPs can either buy a box from Abaca or supply their own hardware. |
| [November 9, 2007] | One More Anti-Spam Tool | |
| PureMessage
by ActiveState |
1997 in Vancouver BC Canada | Perl-based open source server-side software. Designed to be customizable. Priced per-server rather than per-mailbox, making it cheaper to buy than most other solutions. Acquired by anti-virus vendor Sophos. |
| [November 8, 2002] | Pearl of an Anti-Spam Program | |
| Barracuda Networks | 2002
in Cupertino CA |
Appliance with no per-mailbox fees making it one of the cheapest on the market. ISP features are being added. Starts at $1,797. |
| [March 6, 2007] | Barracuda Networks Updates Image Scanning in Anti-Spam Engine | |
| [January 15, 2004] | Small Fish, Big Name, Right Price | |
| BitDefender | c.
1990 in Bucharest, Romania |
Focuses on highly customized product for large ISPs. Also offers turnkey solution for $5,000 plus $0.10 per subscriber per month. Renewal fees are 50 percent of initial sale. Free anti-virus product available. |
| [October 22, 2004] | Doing A Bit of Good | |
| Blue Security | 2004 in Herzliya Pituach, Israel, with offices in Menlo Park, CA | Company is building a do not intrude list and actively reporting spam to corporations and government agencies, and fighting spam in many other ways as well. Program is still in beta and is free to ISPs. Too effective: shut down by spammers. |
| [December 5, 2005] | Blue Security's Anti-Spam Community | |
| Brightmail | 1998 in San Francisco CA | Software takes advantage of a global network of spam-collecting dummy mailboxes to "fingerprint" spam. Designed for big ISPs. Acquired by Symantec. |
| [October 11, 2002] | Brightmail 4.0 Cracks Down on Spam | |
| Clearswift | 1982
in Reading, UK |
Top of the line, comprehensive service targeted at protecting business e-mail. Service incorporates anti-spam, anti-virus, policy enforcement, and intellectual property protection. |
| [January 12, 2004] | Business E-Mail Control | |
| Cloudmark | 1998 in San Francisco | Uses a wide variety of technologies to fight spam, supplementing its own technology with other data such as LASHBACK. |
| [May 15, 2007] | Vipul's Update | |
| [February 1, 2007] | Cloudmark Claims Latest Release Virtually Eliminates Spam | |
| OrangeBox by Cobion | 1997 in Kassel, Germany | Filtering
and anti-spam software, available in enterprise (server-side) and
home (client-side) versions, is supported by a data center that crawls
120 million websites every month. Acquired by ISS. |
| [March 27, 2003] | Ready to go Right Out of the OrangeBox | |
| COMDOM Software | Košice, Slovakia | It's based on heuristics, like SpamAssassin, but claims to be 30 times faster. |
| [June 18, 2007] | Fast Anti-Spam | |
| ASAP! by Commtouch | 1991 in Netanya, Israel | Uses content-independent statistical analysis of traffic flow. As RBL only, priced starting at $3 per user per year. Total solution starts at $20 per user per year. Both have volume discounts. |
| [June 23, 2003] | Approximate Matching is More Accurate | |
| EGramPlus | Hendersonsville, NC | EGramPlus is a disposale e-mail system with client and server side components. It is available though an affiliate agreement, and directly, with licenses starting at $19.95 and decreasing rapidly to $10 and below for volumes as low as 1000 licenses. |
| [July 7, 2004] | An Innovative Disposable E-Mail System | |
| eW@ll by Gennux | 2002 in Edmonton, Alberta Canada | eW@ll is a modular anti-spam system that includes whitelist, challenge-response, and disposable e-mail addresses. Also available are stripped-down versions for cell phones and PDAs. |
| [March 19, 2004] | Gennux Offers Modular Anti-Spam to ISPs and Cellular Carriers | |
| GoodbyeSpam | San Clemente CA | Company has sold enterprise anti-spam for some time; seeks ISP beta testers of its ISP edition. Product is a modified challenge-response system. |
| [May 14, 2003] | GoodbyeSpam Reaches Out to ISPs | |
| Habeas, Inc. | 2002
in Palo Alto CA |
Fighting spam with copyrighted haiku and the DMCA. |
| [September 12, 2002] | Poetry vs. Spam in Amsterdam | |
| MAP by ICS Network Systems | Bohemia, NY | An
add-on to any mail server or anti-spam solution that specializes in
checking for forged addresses of major ISPs. Priced per message starting at $250 for 50,000 messages. |
| [November 21, 2003] | MAP is Spam's Simple Answer | |
| Velop Escudo by Inova | 1996 in Sao Paolo, Brazil with offices in Bethesda, MD | Service includes e-mail backup, anti-spam, and anti-virus. Anti-spam is based on Qmail and SpamAssassin, with custom GUI. Sold as 50/50 revenue share or for $3 per user per month, falling rapidly with volume orders to below $1 per user per month. |
| [May 15, 2003] | A Brazilian Anti-Spam Solution | |
| IMail
by Ipswitch |
1991
in Lexington MA |
NT-based mail server. Priced at $1,495 for unlimited users plus an annual service agreement of about $445. |
| [April 11, 2000] | IMail's Security, Anti-Relay, and Anti-Spam Features | |
| [also
see from March 14, 2005] |
Ipswitch Adds Anti-Spam to ICS | |
| IronPort Systems |
2001 in San Bruno CA |
Appliance-based. Relies on a "bonded sender" concept. Entered into a relationship with Return Path. Then was acquired by Cisco |
| [December 18, 2007] | Cisco and IronPort: Filters Are Not Enough | |
| [October 4, 2002] | Making Spammers Pay | |
| LASHBACK | 2003 in St. Louis, MO | A system that allows customers to safely unsubscribe from newsletters, free to ISPs and customers in exchange for allowing LASHBACK to monitor the performance of unsubscribes.. |
| [February 2, 2007] | Keeping an Eye on Marketers | |
| MagicMail by Linux Magic | 1996 in Surrey, BC, Canada | Open source daemon available. System designed for ISPs with 1,000 subscribers or more. |
| [August 10, 2007] | MagicMail Anti-Spam from Linux Magic | |
| Accessio by MiaVia | 2001 in Sausalito CA | Filtering system that analyzes only the body of the message. |
| [August 19, 2004] | The Filter for Your Anti-Spam Filter | |
| SkyScan AS by MessageLabs | 1999 in Gloucester UK | Uses heuristics. MessageLabs runs its own servers through which customers' mail passes. Priced per user per month starting at about $3.24 per user per month for 100 mailboxes and decreasing for higher volumes. Company website has detailed, real-time spam statistics, available free to all. |
| [July 31, 2002] | Keeping Up With Ratware | |
| Message Server by Mirapoint | 1997
in Sunnyvale CA |
High-end mail appliance vendor. Multi-featured server starts at $39,000. Customers include Verizon and BMW. |
| [April 12, 2002] | Mirapoint's Multiprocessing Messengers | |
| MX Logic | 2002
in Denver, CO |
Modular, upgradeable framework for large ISPs. Supported by the MX Logic Threat Center, which researches spam in a manner similar to anti-virus centers. Priced at $2 per user per year for 250,000 users, with volume discounts available. |
| [March 15, 2004] | As Spam Adapts, MX Logic Promises to Adapt Too | |
| Net-Sieve | October 2001 in Austin TX | Appliance-based product starts at a $19,995 flat fee for 250 users. |
| [January 2, 2003] | An Anti-Spam Startup's First Box | |
| Openwave Email Mx and Gx by Openwave | 1994 in Redwood City CA | A full featured mail server that interoperates with anti-virus and anti-spam products such as McAfee, Cloudmark, and Brightmail. Designed and priced for carriers. Protects cellular networks too. |
| [March 11, 2004] | Openwave Adds Edge Infrastructure Protection | |
| Postini | 1999 in Redwood City CA | This scalable filtering service has a wide variety of pricing options, so ask Postini for detailed pricing information for your ISP. |
| [November 20, 2000] | Hope on the E-mail Front | |
| EIS by Privacy Networks | 2003 in Fort Collins CO | A suite of e-mail protection products from a company that sells through channels only. Pricing not disclosed. |
| [June 29, 2006] | Privacy Networks Delivers Latest Element of E-Mail Management Suite | |
| Reflexion | Funded in 2005 in Woburn MA | A combination of many anti-spam methods with an improved type of disposable e-mail addresses that the company calls non-disposable e-mail addresses. Service can be licensed or hosted. Pricing starts at $0.50 per mailbox per month and other pricing options are available. |
| [Sept. 6, 2007] | Reflexion Total Control 5.2 | |
| [May 18, 2007] | Reflexion Total Control 5.0 | |
| [May 25, 2006] | Reflexion Anti-Spam | |
| CanIt Spam Trap by Roaring Penguin Software | 1999 in Ottawa, Ontario | Open source product. $1.50 per user (one time fee, maintenance 20 percent of sales fee per year). Company provides source code. Product is based on SpamAssassin. |
| [Oct. 29, 2007] | CanIt Anti-Spam Version 4.0 | |
| [July 17, 2006] | Anti-Spam Software for the Webhosting Industry | |
| [September 1, 2005] | The Heart of the Penguin | |
| [July 17, 2003] | The Penguin and the Assassin | |
| MailSite by Rockliffe | 1995 in Campbell CA | A Windows-based mail server. Service provider and carrier-class versions of the software are available, as well as versions serving 500 or fewer mailboxes. |
| [September 25, 2003] | Rockliffe's MailSite Adds Anti-Spam | |
| MailCenter by Sendmail |
1997 in Emeryville CA |
Eric Allman has been developing message transfer agents (MTAs) since 1981. His company is moving into total mail management. A 100,000 user ISP might pay about $3 per user for the current product. |
| [December 18, 2002] | Mailcenter's Modular Mail Management | |
| MailFoundry by Solinus | 1994
in Green Bay, WI |
The company that built the ISP Green Bay Online and now runs a variety of web-delivered services built this system. Price is $2,995 per appliance plus a per user per month fee starting at $0.31, with prepayment and volume discounts. |
| [May 12, 2003] | This ISP's Anti-Spam System | |
| CommuniGate Pro by Stalker Software | 1993
in Mill Valley CA |
High-end mail server available on 25 different operating systems. |
| [May 8, 2000] | Heterogeneous Multi-Server Clusters | |
| SublimeMail | 2002
in Franklin, TN |
Priced per e-mail scanned. Available hosted or on-site. Especially inexpensive for ISPs receiving less than 100,000 e-mails per day. |
| [June 10, 2004] | Every Anti-Spam Provider Needs an ISP | |
| Plesk by SWsoft | 1997 in Moscow, Russia, now headquartered in Herndon, VA | Basic anti-spam and other security features added to a popular control panel. |
| [July 24, 2003] | Plesk Adds Anti-Spam | |
| The Titan Key |
2003 in Honolulu, HI |
Challenge response system with extra features that allow customers to subscribe to newsletters and interact with e-commerce websites. Fools mass mail software into thinking you don't exist. |
| [April 7, 2003] | Modified Mail Could End Spam | |
| Trend Micro | 1998 in CA | Various suites of anti-spam services from the free online HouseCall to the InterCloud Security Service. |
| [September 22, 2006] | InterCloud Security Service | |
| TurnTide Anti Spam Router, SP Edition by TurnTide | 2004 in Conshohocken PA | TurnTide appliances combine to form a network that analyzes traffic patterns to prioritize e-mail over spam without actually stopping spam. Complements other anti-spam methods. Starts at $20,000 per year, with actual price depending on network size. Based on SpamSquelcher. Acquired by Symantec. |
| [March 12, 2004] | An Updated Anti-Spam Router | |
| Vanquish | 2002 in Marlborough MA | Client-based software sold to end users directly and through ISP partners. Relies on a "bonded sender" concept and complements other anti-spam measures. |
| [September 6, 2002] | Anti-Spam Startup Seeks ISP Partners | |
| ModusMail
by Vircom |
1994 in Montréal Quebec Canada | Priced starting at $5,495 for 1,000 mailboxes on one server, the product relies on a coalition of small- and medium-sized ISP customers to update spam definitions. Company also makes MMORPG software. |
| [January 17, 2003] | Software Equipped with Human Brains | |
| WebWasher
by webwasher |
1999 in Paderborn, Germany | A complete suite of content control and security, including anti-spam and anti-virus, targeted at enterprises and ISPs with enterprise customers. Pricing was not disclosed. |
| [April 17, 2003] | Filtering for Enterprise Customers | |
| Related articles: | |||
| [March 12, 2004] | Trend Micro Takes Home Top Anti-Spam Award | ||
| [Nov. 24, 2003] | The Ten Biggest Spam Myths | ||
| [Aug. 29, 2003] | The Spam Conundrum | ||
Further reading: |
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| Brad Templeton's essay on the best way to end spam | ||
| Brad Templeton's Proper principles for Challenge/Response anti-spam systems and followup essay with blog comments by Suresh Ramasubramanian | ||
| Declude's List of Blacklists | ||
| Tim Jackson's SpamAssassin filter for bogus virus warnings with thanks to attrition.org | ||
