With entire catalogues of personal data from HMRC going missing, it’s encouraging to know that not everybody is so laissez-faire about keeping sensitive information secure.

Eclipse Internet has reported that it’s anti-spam measures has seen over 513 million potentially threatening emails blocked from customers’ inboxes during October thanks to upgrades in security software.

Clodagh Murphy, Director of Broadband Operations at Eclipse says, ‘Spam email is a security threat to our customers, as well as being a real cost in terms of time dedicated to dealing with it. Unsolicited email clogs up inboxes and reduces bandwidth for the things our customers actually want.’

The new system, courtesy of IronPort Systems, who are part of Cisco, gives Eclipse customers extra protection against spam and the potential damage it represents, meaning that the days of you getting emails from your long distant relative in Nigeria offering you access to a warehouse full of Viagra are over.

Before you could neatly avoid the threat of spam by simply checking the box and clicking ‘Delete’, but Eclipse customers won’t even have to do that much anymore; ‘As well as identifying and blocking a large proportion of spam before it reaches customers’ mailboxes, our new anti-virus and anti-spam solution also provides the tools to allow customers to check and delete suspect mail before it can do any damage,’ concludes Murphy.

Though not one of the big hitters of the Broadband Premiership in terms of customer numbers, Eclipse are consistently recognised and rated in independent reviews as being one of the better brands out there in terms of speed fidelity, reliability of service and quality of customer service. Customers who have been with Eclipse for over 8 years since the dial-up days repeatedly attest to this.

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