A recently reported Spam mail in circulation is one which claims to come from anti-child porn site. The ‘campaign’ claiming to come from child porn activists ASACP claims that it has proof the user has visited child porn sites. It then suggests a donation to the ASACP may persuade them not to report it.

The mail is written cunningly, as although there is no direct threat, it is implied that there will be consequences if no donation is made. The user obviously is curious, so when they find an attachment, which the spam claims is records of the visits to the porn sites, they open it. This actually is a Trojan and without even realizing it, the cuser has unleashed it onto their computer.

Spam becomes more and more difficult to detect simply by the human eye. Especially when the spam seems to be blackmailing the user!

The vast majority of all emails filtered through ArmourPlate is useless spam, that's countless thousands of emails that our scanners are stopping from wasting clients' time and blocking up their networks.

The situation is worsening fast. The number of spam emails received by an average user is doubling every four and a half months, according to CAUCE (Coalition Against Unsolicted Commercial Email).

Apart from the aggravation and embarrassment that spam emails can bring, they cost your business valuable time and money. A Gartner Group study shows that each employee spends more than an hour a day simply managing email. Perhaps even worse than the increasing volume of spam received, is the number of 'legitimate' emails deleted by accident.

ArmourPlate detects and stops Spam from reaching your company without stopping legitimate mail.

Source: Various

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