JAR Web Design is pleased to provide a
FREE enhancement
to all our e-mail hosting customers. SPAM and viruses can literally
bring a company's operations to a screeching halt. CleanMail
keeps your business secure, providing the protection you
need for your sensitive files, data and network. SPAM messages
and Viruses are clearly labeled to save you time by allowing you
to systematically set up e-mail client rules directing SPAM to
a specific e-mail folder for later review.
How VIRUS protection
works
As soon as an email reaches
your mail server, a virus filtering system scans the incoming message
and any attachments using the latest virus definitions. If an email
is found to contain a virus, the email is automatically deleted
and a notification is sent to both the sender and the recipient.
In a few cases, the sender will not receive a notification. (For
example, if the address from which the virus was sent is forged
or invalid or if the virus filters out the sender's email address).
The virus notification includes the name of the virus and the email
address specified as the sender's address. The email's subject provides
detailed information, as the following sample email subject line
illustrates:
***VIRUS***(from<random@yahoo.com>)(W32/Hawawi.G@mm)
Virus definitions are updated on a daily basis to provide
the greatest security. Note: Emails that have already been scanned
for viruses and which contain either X-Virus-Scanned or X-Virus-Hold
in the header will not be re-scanned. The system does not scan messages
less than 24 KB in size regardless of attachments.
TIPS:
Never open messages that CleanMail labels as a virus or contain
strange characters, suffix codes (e.g., .exe, .vb, etc) or misspellings
in the subject lines...or even blank subject lines for that matter.
Simply delete these messages from you inbox. You should also never
open attachments or even accept e-mails with attachments that you
are not expecting.
How SPAM filtering works
The spam
filtering system, which utilizes SpamAssasin, is built around
a set of spam rules that have been carefully developed to provide
you protection from spam while reducing the number of valid email
messages that may be mistakenly categorized as spam.
All incoming emails are evaluated against
these spam rules and are assigned a "spam score." This score determines
whether the message will be classified as spam. The threshold is
set at 5, meaning any message with a score of 5 or higher is classified
as spam. Messages scoring between 5 and 10 will be delivered, but
will include a spam notification in the subject of the email so
that you can immediately identify and delete these messages (or
even configure your mail client to delete the message automatically).
The following illustrates a sample subject line of an email message
that scores between 5 and 10.
***SPAM***FREE PAY-PER-VIEW for life!
Messages
that receive a spam ranking above 10 are automatically deleted so
that they do not end up in your in-box.Note: Emails that have already
been filtered for spam and which contain the X-Spam-Flag in the
header are not checked. Emails greater than 150 KB are not spam
filtered.
TIPS:
Be wary of supplying personal contact info, particularly your
e-mail address, on Web site forms. Always read the terms of
agreement on all offers and do not accept the terms if they
state that performance or tracking software will be loaded onto
your machine. Because SPAM caught by CleanMail is tagged consitently,
you can easily set up Email client rules to direct suspect mail
to a designated Email folder for verification prior to deleting.
Never supply credit card, banking,
social security, passwords or financial information for unsolicited
e-mails. Even if they appear to be from reputable sites. Spammers
are getting very sophisticated in their techniques.
Resist the temptation to use "un-subscribe"
mechanisms in unsolicited e-mails, these methods are usually devised
to validate your e-mail address and can result in actually increasing
the amount of SPAM that your receive.
