CHICAGO, Jan. 20 /PRNewswire/ -- Hostway Corp., a leading provider of Internet hosting and other managed technology services, today offered Web users help in the battle against spam email and damaging email-borne viruses with the introduction of CleanMail, a spam- and virus-blocking service integrated into Hostway's hosting services at no additional charge.
Hostway said the new service is available to its customers worldwide, and will be included as a standard feature within all of its hosting and ecommerce plans purchased by new customers.
Ferris Research recently estimated that spam cost U.S. organizations $10 billion in 2003 -- and accounted for up to 20 percent of all inbound email to U.S. businesses -- as many as 110 unwanted messages per person each week.
"With unsolicited commercial email cluttering inboxes and viruses bringing down entire networks, businesses and consumers need to protect themselves from attacks now more than ever," said John Lee, Hostway's Director of Marketing. "Hostway wholeheartedly supports legislative efforts to control spam and protect Internet users. Anti-spam laws are an important and appropriate way of addressing this issue. To augment the legislative approaches, Hostway is playing an active role in offering a technology-based solution. We're very pleased to give our customers immediate and concrete help with these difficult problems."
CleanMail helps block spam by classifying email and stops viruses before they can ever reach the intended recipient. Using advanced technology to search emails for known spam elements, it labels these messages by including "SPAM" directly in the subject line. This allows the recipient to quickly identify which messages are potential spam without the risk of losing those that are not.
It also checks all incoming email messages against frequently updated virus definitions, hunting for suspicious viruses and attachments before they enter the recipient's inbox. If a virus is detected, the email is deleted and a notification is sent to both the sender and intended receiver.
"The fight against spam and viruses is serious," said Lee. "Hostway has created aggressive technology to help our customers deal with this problem without risking lost messages. We can't guarantee that 100 percent of all spam will be identified, but our new CleanMail offering will definitely help protect our customers."
Hostway created CleanMail in response to customers' growing need for an effective, yet non-intrusive spam and virus filter.
About Hostway
Hostway Corporation provides Web hosting and managed technology services to more than 300,000 customers worldwide. Hostway helps individuals, small businesses and large enterprises achieve more value from state-of-the-art Web- based technologies by reducing their complexity and cost. Founded in 1998, Hostway is one of the five largest Web hosting companies in the world with offices in the Americas (Chicago, Tampa and Vancouver), Europe (London and Amsterdam) and Asia (Seoul and Sydney). For more information about Hostway Corporation, please visit www.hostway.com or call 1-888-290-5170.
