September 8th, 2010
It may seem to some that using hosted email services for their business can be expensive, difficult to manage and time consuming to set up. Others may even say that their email system should be managed in house, instead of outsourcing it to a third party. However spam rates show no signs of slowing down and it is becoming increasingly difficult for a business to effectively manage this risk. Plus many organisations are now incorporating email archiving into their business continuity planning. Let’s not forget they also have a business to run.
Using a hosted email management system that provides both anti spam protection and email archiving can actually provide the ideal solution for businesses. By securely managing this offsite it can effectively remove any email risk as well as hassle of having to deal with themselves.
Getting started with us at Message Stream has never been easier. We offer the completed hosted email solution that protects your business through anti spam protection and our email management service. This can all be set up without any changes to your network. All we need from you is a list of your domains and email addresses and you just make a small change to your domain MX records. Then you’re set up – quickly, easily and safely. We can even offer you a free 14 day trial to see for yourself how easy it is to plug into MessageStream and start benefiting from our services – as well as get that peace of mind.
Tags: Anti-Spam, email archiving, spam, Spam Filter
September 2nd, 2010
Have you ever been a victim of identify theft? Unfortunately, these days many people have in the UK. Identify theft occurs when criminals have access to your personal details and use them for fraudulent activities such as opening bank accounts under your name. There are many ways for criminals to steal your personal details. From hacking into your computer, through online or telephone scams and even rummaging through your rubbish bins to get copies of old bills or bank statements.
A common form of identity theft is through spam emails – often referred to as phishing. Phishing usually results from spammers sending out junk email with the sole purpose of stealing your personal information. They are often disguised as coming from legitimate sources such as big name banks, and link through to bogus websites that ask you to confirm your details.
Don’t make it easy for these fraudsters to steal your details. Now more than ever you need to protect yourself against identity theft. At MessageStream, we can safeguard you against the threat of identify theft. Through our award winning anti spam technology, our filters can detect 99% of all spam that attempts to enter your network. We run over 90 deep and intelligence tests on every single email that will detect whether you should be receiving the email. Our spam blocker then safely ensures these particular email addresses are blacklisted so you don’t continue to receive this junk mail from those spammers. Make sure you don’t become the next victim of identity theft.
Tags: Anti-Spam, junk email, Spam Blocker, spam blocking
August 17th, 2010
Some may say that blocking spam from reaching your inbox is essentially blocking free speech. Well that could be the argument by spammers themselves as they try to justify sending out these unsolicited emails. However, true censorship would block this form of advertising all together, which is not the case in the UK. Under UK legislation some marketing emails can still be sent until the recipient decides to opt out, as long as they were sent within the UK. Spammers are then no longer permitted to email you from that address under the Data Protection Act 1998.
So you have the right to opt out of receiving future emails from these spammers – but who really has the time to wade through the copious amounts of junk mail we get each day? Plus by accessing and unsubscribing from these emails, you indicate to spammers that your email address is live thus making you a target for more junk mail. Additionally, with viruses, inappropriate content, or phishing scams contained in spam, a business is exposing itself to further risk if they access these emails.
Fortunately, anti spam detection services offer spam blockers that can simply block junk mail from entering you server without you having to do the filtering yourself. Here at Message Stream, our anti spam protection can be added to your organisation’s email server quickly and easily. By using sophisticated spam filtering and spam blocking techniques, we can save you time, hassle and even money by ensuring only the good emails reach your network.
Tags: Anti-Spam, junk email, preventing Spam, Spam Services
August 8th, 2010
Some of us may think we can easily recognise any junk mail we receive in our inbox – and simply just delete it. But the spammers of today are much more clever. Many can disguise junk mail by making it look legitimate, when it is a phishing scam trying to steal your personal data.
So how do these spammers get your email address? Well there are several ways they can go about it. By simply guessing your email address, or if you register online to a bogus site – even unsubscribing to certain emails means spammers can get hold of your address.
For a business, this can create a lot of hassle as it is time consuming and a drain on staff resources having to filter through every individual email received. Plus it can also expose a business to potential risks through the threat of viruses or email scams.
At Message Stream, we make it our mission to stop those unwanted emails from reaching your inbox. Through our leading anti spam protection we simply identify and filter any junk mail before it enters your network. In fact our spam filter is so accurate; we can identify 99% of junk mail making it one of the most accurate catch rates available. But rather than take our word for it – we have also been recognised by the test industry leader Virus Bulletin who recently awarded us two VB Spam awards. So stop letting Spam become a headache for your business, and let Message Stream stop it for you.
Tags: Anti-Spam, junk email, spam blocker technology, Spam Email, Spam Filter
July 27th, 2010
Many more business these days are moving towards offsite hosting of their email management systems. As spam rates continue to soar, and staff are becoming more accountable for their actions, businesses need an effective way to manage their emails – that not only reduces their email risk, but also frees up their time to focus on their daily operations. As a result, these hosted email management services have become ever more sophisticated, offering a whole range of useful features.
As well as providing spam filtering and spam blocking services, they can also provide secure email archiving which is useful for compliance and business continuity purposes. However, another handy feature is the email statistic reports that let businesses review their staff’s email usage.
At MessageStream, we help you manage your emails effectively and easily through our leading hosted email service. While our award winning anti spam protection removes the hassle of junk mail and the threat of viruses from your network, we also give you essential information on your team’s email usage through our simple reporting tools. All your emails are first indexed and then securely archived instantly. Our detailed web-based management reports then give you real-time email system statistics, letting you easily monitor email activity across your organisation, as well as helping to identify trends – especially useful in forward business planning. The reports can be delivered daily or weekly, and are displayed using graphic statistics that make it easier to review and monitor this information. So let us make your life easier.
Tags: Anti-Spam, email risk, spam, spam blocking, spam filtering
July 23rd, 2010
Businesses are faced daily with a constant onslaught of spam, which if not managed correctly, can cause a major strain to its resources – both financial and human. IT departments already have enough to contend with, without the worry of spam having the potential to wreak havoc across their network.
To add to this, there is a growing need for a business to have effective email archiving systems in place. Factors including business continuity planning, law requirements such as the data protection act 1998 and the increased ‘best practice’ approach of securely storing all company emails have led to this move towards email archiving.
To help contend with these factors, companies are now turning to hosted email security services that are safely managed offsite. Traditionally this has typically been the choice of small to medium businesses; however, as spam rates continue to grow, larger companies have also turned to outsourcing their email management security.
At Message Stream, we offer the complete hosted email management service that successfully shields your business against any email risk. Our leading anti spam service provides accurate filtering of spam, junk mail and viruses, whilst our secure archiving system then stores every one of your business emails – all done safely offsite. There is no expensive software to install and it can easily work with any mail server. You also get access to your own browser interface – myMessage Stream, providing up to date email reporting, analysis and end user statistics. So give your business the security it deserves.
Tags: Anti-Spam, email archiving, spam, Spam Service
June 20th, 2010
Many of the emails that you receive – advertising miracle products or services that you can’t manage without – are spam. The individual, or organisation, that sent the junk email will not have permission to send it. These types of email are not damaging to individuals, but are annoying, and many will not even be looked at. For a business though, the cost of employees scanning through junk emails searching for legitimate emails will be high. Although these emails are not usually responded to (or even looked at), the senders regard this spam as an opportunity to make profit from the small minority that will purchase the product advertised.
Scammers are often trying to con email recipients, either by selling you a product, which is either unfit for its purpose or which is never delivered. There will be no address or contact details for you to request your money back. You may even purchase a product that never arrives, only to find that the scammer has used your credit card details, or other confidential information.
Many individuals who start online businesses can easily fall prey to scams, losing money along the way as well as risking complaints from email recipients. The recommended course of action, is not to open emails that you have not requested or do not recognise. For a business, this isn’t always the best approach, as they will receive many emails throughout the course of a day. For companies, a hosted spam service like MessageStream is the most cost effective, and secure, course of action.
Tags: Anti-Spam, junk email, Spam Email, Spam Filter, Spam Service
June 14th, 2010
Spam costs companies huge amounts of money each year in wasted resources and anti spam products. Spam has a high cost for many online businesses, and there are many ways that spam effects companies. The only person who doesn’t pay for the cost of spam is the sender of the junk email.
There are many companies offering anti spam solutions, such as email filters and spam blockers. These all cost money, but are very necessary if you want to protect your business. It is essential to outsource your spam services to a reliable company, who will maintain an effective service for your company, such as here at MessageStream.
Employees who have to check emails for spam will lose productivity, as they have to spend valuable time checking emails for authenticity. The cost for each employee can be totalled up to huge sums of money in lost productivity.
As emails are being checked, it is possible to miss important, genuine emails which need to be dealt with, which will also have a high cost through lost income and opportunity.
Each spam email is a threat to your company, and can be responsible for introducing viruses and spy ware to your system – which could cost you your business. Data may be corrupted, valuable information lost, as well as the loss of email service – which will lose you custom. For any company that relies on their email services for their business, an anti spam service is essential.
Tags: Anti-Spam, spam advice, Spam Blocker, Spam Filter, Spam Services
June 8th, 2010
Spam is a problem faced by many Internet users, such as individuals and companies who rely on email to manage their business on a daily basis. For a company who has details of purchases, stock inventory, confidential information of customers and clients, junk email can be a danger to the security of the business and its database.
There are some ways to prevent spam, although it is extremely difficult to prevent unless you employ anti spam services such as ours at MessageStream. We can prevent junk mail without interrupting your daily influx of emails, so that you can continue to manage your business without ever having to be involved with spam emails.
When you receive a spam email, don’t reply to it or click on any links within the email itself. You could be downloading spy ware or viruses without being aware of it. You will occasionally receive an email with an option to ‘unsubscribe yourself’ from the list, but shouldn’t take any action as this link will possibly introduce a harmful virus to your computer. Some unscrupulous marketers still persist in using spam emails to gain business, and by replying or trying to unsubscribe you are confirming that your email is valid, which will attract more of this spam.
Previewing your messages will give you the chance to delete any emails that look suspicious, which will remove the threat of viruses. Above all, it is necessary to do as much as you can to prevent spam emails, by using the spam filters and blockers provided by your email service, but the most effective method is a spam service.
Tags: anti spam service, Anti-Spam, Spam Blocker, spam blocker technology, Spam Service
June 5th, 2010
Email is a valuable tool for companies to manage their business. It is fast, low-cost and reliable for a company, saving time and money – valuable resources, for all businesses. However, the ease and simplicity of email also makes it the perfect medium for spam, which floods email accounts with nuisance emails. Not only are these annoying and time-consuming, but they can also introduce harmful viruses to your computer system.
A company has to waste resources on the cost of tackling spam, as employers have a legal obligation to protect employees from unsuitable material contained in junk mail. It becomes necessary for a company to introduce a spam service solution, but locating the right company can be a problem. As the amount of spam emails received can easily overwhelm a company’s IT department, it can be a cost effective solution to outsource email filtering to a managed spam service – such as here at MessageStream.
The spam filter provided by an email client will work, to a certain degree, to filter and block spam, but are not as effective as a professional spam services provider, which will offer extra protection against viruses and spam.
Spam is notoriously hard to fight, with spammers working diligently to get around filters and spam blockers to reach your inbox. Spam emails can cost a company large amounts of money (in terms of manpower), bandwidth and time, which is why it is imperative to outsource to a professional company, who can solve your problem with spam, and enable you to make the most of email.
Tags: anti spam service, Anti-Spam, junk email, Spam Blocker
