Companies and Internet service providers could control bandwidth, server capacity, and support costs whipped up by spam, if they're willing to take a chance on SpamSquelcher, says the product's developer, ePrivacy Group.
"Today, spammers can send millions of unsolicited e-mails at little expense, because costs are borne by the entities that deliver and receive the mail: ISPs, enterprises, and consumers," ePrivacy Group said in a statement released February 11. They cite a Ferris Reseatch study that estimates spam costing American companies a whopping $8.9 billion last year.
ePrivacy president Vince Schiavone hopes the new Spam Squelcher hits the spammers in the purse while freeing up a good volume of the wasted bandwidth to let the e-mail get through quicker.
"Our research indicates that unless something is done to reverse spam's parasitic economics," he said, "spam will impose a growing financial burden on ISPs and enterprises, a burden that is increasing at a rate of more than 15 percent per month according to some estimates."
Chief technology officer David Brussin - who thinks spam is the next best thing to a denial-of-service attack at its worst extreme - said the patent-pending SpamSquelcher also stops the spam slammers from abusing or stealing any resources the new software is marked to protect.
"You no longer have to increase your spending on bandwidth, hardware, and people just to cope with spam -- the return on investment is almost immediate," he said.
The company says SpamSquelcher can also augment existing anti-spam tools like filters, trap networks, block lists, and white lists, with chief privacy officer Ray Everett-Church claiming the new program gives "zero" false positives, "work(ing) without blocking a single legitimate e-mail."
SpamSquelcher technology is available for license on CD now, with appliances due to be available in the very near future.. For further information or to obtain licensing for your enterprise or computer network, visitePrivacy Group on the Web; or, call 1-(610) 407-0400.
