Spam Assassin and Virus Protection Implemented at HostNexus

Spam Assassin and F-Prot Virus Protection was recently implemented at HostNexus, protecting clients at the server level from spam and the soBig email virus epidemic.

Spam control - how can you stop the abusive flow of spam? The answer to this question was recently established at NexusPortal (http://www.nexusportal.net/) - the new web
hosting support site for HostNexus, where webmasters are now receiving first-class protection on the server level from spam and virus emails.

"We discussed the problem as a community, and found it was not uncommon for webmasters to receive 100 or more spam emails every day," says HostNexus technical director, Laurence Flynn. "That's a considerable loss of time and resources. As email providers, we felt it was our duty to protect our clients from this scurge of the modern day net. That was the impetus behind HostNexus recently implementing very effective server based spam filters and virus protection."

Beginning July 19th, 2003, HostNexus clients were able to opt-in to Spam-Assassin and F-Prot Virus Protection for every domain they owned. The positive response was overwhelming. With Spam email now marked for easy identification, HostNexus clients were able to direct "Spam" emails into a separate incoming mail folder - immediately eliminating most spam from their main inbox system. The quarantined spam could also be quickly deleted by the recipient, often just by viewing email subject lines and never opening the spam itself.

With server level virus protection also installed, HostNexus clients were easily able to cope with the worldwide soBig epidemic. Virus emails directed at a HostNexus domain generated an alert which identified the incoming email as a possible virus. Clients could choose not to download the identified virus and also to direct any alerts, through their own filters, to be stored in a separate folder or deleted. This measure saved several people from the consequences of not updating their own personal virus software.

"HostNexus clients now spend significantly less time dealing with spam. And our reseller hosting clients are delighted for another reason; they have made extra sales because of the level of spam control and virus protection that they can now offer to their own web hosting customers," says Flynn.

HostNexus (http://www.hostnexus.com) specializes in affordable reseller hosting and reliable shared web hosting. The company has offices in Melbourne, Australia and Detroit, Michigan.