August 31, 2004
Case Study: 602LAN Reduces WLSI's Spam Count Dramatically
Some users went from 80% spam to 0% spam.
Not all big spam problems are housed in big companies. Walter Lorenz Surgical Inc., (WLSI) is a Jacksonville, FL-based manufacturer of medical products that employs 175 people.
The company's spam count increased steadily and reached a level where most users were receiving spam in over 80% of their messages. Network Administrator Michael Henry turned to Software602, a local Jacksonville e-mail filtering company for support, and he got it.
The company's 602LAN product is a multi-threaded SMTP server that includes an anti-virus vilter, Bayesian anti-spam filters, that includes an automatic teaching routine, and allows a global blacklist to be managed for all users. The program filters attachments as well as e-mail text, and provides a web mail client for traveling users.
WLSI's e-mail is hosted at an ISP located in California. After messages are received there, 602LAN uses its POP3 download feature to bring them to the WLSI site in Florida, where they are checked for spam and viruses, as well as for unwanted attachments. 602LAN has been set up at WLSI so that a secondary check for inappropriate subject lines can be made.
The results are stunning. Most users receive no more than one or two spam messages a day. Some receive none.
WLSI runs the 602LAN software on a basic Pentium 4 server, operating on Windows XP Professional. The product can be purchased online at . Downloads are available in packages licensed for five, ten, twenty-five, or an unlimited number of users starting at $99.95. A license for under five users is free.
