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Total Email ProtectionOver half of all email that is sent on the Internet is considered Spam. Spam is the term used to describe any email that is sent to you unsolicited from an organization that you do not already have a business relationship with. Most of these emails are advertising irritating products that you have no interest in but many also contain pornographic images in them as well.
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To make matters worse, Spam also is used to mislead users into giving out sensitive information or
passwords or for the spread of viruses that can destroy your operating system or critical
applications. Spam can do this simply by forging a URL that looks safe but then launches a web
browser (hidden from the user of course) to download the virus.
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Many ISPs have chosen to implement cheap Spam filtering techniques to block the Spam from getting to
your email address. They just tell their mail servers to scan your email for certain words that are
considered suspicious and if they find one or two of these words they just throw your mail away without
even telling you about it. Personally, we find this approach completely unacceptable since they have
such a high false positive rate. ChamberGates has chosen to go with a much more professional approach and although it costs more money but provides a much bigger benefit for our users. Our Spam filters have a very low false positive rate, in fact we are below one percent, which considering how creative Spammers have become, is really quite amazing. We filter out 98-99% of your Spam messages and only 1 out of 100 messages is falsely filed as Spam. You will also be given a login for your domain so that you can check the messages that were marked as Spam and can therefore review our work. Most providers are afraid to show you this type of information as you can see how inefficient their filters really are. We will even allow you to add email addresses to your own "White Lists" that allows mail from that sender no matter what type of content is being sent. When we implement this system your mail will have 4 mail servers that mail can come into giving your email a much more redundant solution than ever before. The best news is that this product comes absolutely FREE with your Gold or Platinum plans and all you have to do is write us an email and we will turn it on for you. If you have any one of our products you can also enable this feature for only $9.95 per month. | |
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Removing Spam from your email is only part of the equation, the other part is removing the viruses that
are attached to the email as well. Total Email Protection includes the Spam Trapping
service mentioned above as well as Virus Scanning. We have chosen to implement one of the strongest
virus detection programs, F-Prot, that will scan your attachments for known viruses. By using a
commercial scanner like F-Prot we can rest assured that viruses will be a thing of the past for your
email. Scanning attachments are one thing, but did you know that viruses can also spread by exploiting special codes used by advanced email readers. For these types of viruses our virus scanner that normally calls F-Prot for attachment searches, handles the detection and removal of these emails. Again, ChamberGates chose to go with oldest provider of this type of technology to insure that you are as protected as possible. Total Email Protection comes free with the Spam Trapping service. | |
