Eclipse Internet has proudly published results showing that the KCOM-owned ISP successfully blocked some 98.2 per cent of spam emails from reaching customers’ inboxes during the month of July – equivalent to over 503 million emails.
Whilst the majority of spam emails which offer you Viagra, cialis and access to offshore African bank accounts left to you in the will of some relative you’ve never heard of are pretty easy to detect, flag and delete, some spam emails are cleverly constructed hoaxes of emails sent from legitimate organisations which would plausibly try to get in contact with you via email – eBay, for example.
All Eclipse Internet packages come with their own branded VIRUSsheild and SPAMsheild security solutions, allowing customers to get set up and surf safely out of the box. As well as identifying and blocking a large proportion of spam before it reaches customers’ mailboxes, the anti-virus/anti-spam solution allows customers to check and delete suspect mail before it can do any damage.
The entry on spam at the website of security experts Symantec says that “messages that do not include your email address in the TO: or CC: fields are common [hallmarks] of Spam,” and therefore should be deleted before opening any attachments which come included.
Clodagh Murphy, Director of Broadband Operations at Eclipse says that “Spam email is a real nuisance and can pose a security threat to customers. Unsolicited email unfortunately is becoming more prolific as internet usage continues to increase. At Eclipse, we try to ease the pain for our customers with our very effective anti-virus/anti-spam solution.”
Similar Posts: