Nemx Software Stengthens Commitment to Fighting Spam with New RBL Partnerships

Relationships with Mail Deflectore, SpamCop, and MailAbuse provide customers with multiple lines of protection against growing number of spam threats.
 

Ottawa, Canada – January 5, 2004 – Nemx Software, a provider of anti-virus and secure content management products for companies of all sizes, today announced that it has partnered with three anti-spam service providers - Mail Deflector, SpamCop and MailAbuse - to provide an additional layer of spam protection for enterprises using Microsoft Exchange server. With over 100 million Microsoft Exchange Server licenses sold worldwide, these strategic partnerships will reinforce and strengthen Nemx's position as an innovator of anti-spam solutions in the Exchange environment.

In 2003, there was a 50 per cent increase in the overall volume of spam, which has resulted in reduced employee and IT administrator productivity, as well as growing concerns of the reliability of messaging systems as a primary form of business communication. Real-time blackhole lists (RBL) are a technique used to filter spam from actual business email; however, for this method to be effective, it is critical that a mix of highly credible, semi-credible and aggressive RBLs are used. By offering support from multiple RBLs in PowerTools, Nemx is ensuring that its customers are able to keep pace with spam while protecting them from unreliable RBLs which may mistakenly blacklist legitimate domains, or turn rogue and blacklist everyone, or face denial of service attacks.

“As spam continues to infiltrate the inboxes of enterprises, Nemx reinforces our commitment to adding layers to our arsenal of tools, to ensure all businesses using Exchange server have access to the most efficient anti-spam technology on the market,” said John Young , President of Nemx Software Corporation. “Our partnerships with these leading RBLs shows that Nemx is not only serious about putting a stop to spam but also in instilling a high level of confidence in our customers that their critical business email is getting through. We will continue to extend our relationships and expertise base as long as spammers continue to invade and corrupt messaging systems.”

As the first native Exchange product to employ third-party Reverse BlackList (RBL) Technology, Nemx Power Tools provides enterprises with real time information on known spamming hosts, enabling businesses to experience a solid return on investment by blocking spam at the front door of Exchange, increasing overall Exchange performance and decreasing message storage requirements. Combined with Concept Manager - a highly intelligent and intuitive feature that uses natural language processing to better understand the "concept" of the message – Power Tools is further strengthened in its ability to identify spam and manage all email messages, enabling networks to experience fewer false positives than ever before.

Through Nemx's work with professional RBL service providers and additional security vendors including Norman ASA for anti-virus, the company has been able to consistently build upon its product offerings, such as Power Tools, for secure content management in the Exchange environment.

“We are excited to be working alongside Nemx to help eliminate spam in today's businesses,” said Wade Maxfield, President of Mail Deflector. “Given Nemx's success to date with more than 3,000 customers worldwide, we foresee our partnership with Nemx having a strong impact on the way that companies fight spam in the future.”

About Nemx

Nemx Software Corporation was established in 1994 to provide adaptable security solutions for the Microsoft Exchange environment. Nemx was the first company to develop anti-virus products for the Microsoft Exchange client and since then, the company has designed products to work seamlessly with Microsoft Exchange. The company's products meet the growing need for secure email content management, protection from viruses and SPAM, and monitors for inappropriate employee behavior and content. Nemx Power Tools offers multiple lines of defense in the fight against spam, and comes in two editions. Advanced Edition, offers enterprises of all sizes complete protection from both Internet and internal email, while Internet Edition, designed specifically for small to medium sized enterprises, addresses security at the Internet level. Nemx Software has more than 3,000 customers around the world, and is based in Ottawa, Canada. For more information about Nemx Software, please visit www.nemx.com

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