MobileWebSurf chooses Mail-Filters ANTI-SPAM FILTER for its family of Network Applications

MobileWebSurf, a leading provider of mobile applications, adds spam filtering to its new MobilEmail product services for individuals, cellular operators and enterprises. Now cell phone users can stay connected to their emails while on the road, and receive only valid messages. A real value, since any spam messages cost the user wasted airtime charges.

San Mateo, CA (PRWEB) May 2, 2004 ---Mail-Filters.com, Inc., developers of technologically advanced spam filtration solutions with guaranteed detection performance, and MobileWebSurf, an industry leader of mobile applications announce the selection of Mail-Filters as the new anti-spam technology for the core of their MobilEmail product filtering engine.

MobilEmail enables the mobile user to receive and send emails to any hand-held device -- cell phones and PDAs -- regardless of the device type, manufacturer, model, or cellular network. This elegant solution also allows attachments and clickable links to be received, viewed and acted upon by the mobile user.

The combination of the Mail-Filters technology with our MobilEmail application provides the most accurate anti-spam solution available to our users" said Pavan Mandhani, COO at MobileWebSurf. Not only was their technology the best, they made the transition to their technology painless through superior customer service in support of our product deployment."

Weve always prided ourselves on breaking through barriers that have baffled other filtering solutions", says Ben Westbrook, CEO of Mail-Filters. Weve developed new proprietary technology that allows unprecedented catch rates, false positive rates and throughput. MobileWebSurf is using that accuracy to protect the next generation of spam victims - mobile device users. While other anti-spam technologies may be better known to some, its been proven that our technology offers significant performance and catch rate advantages.

Filtering out SPAM is critically important for the MobilEmail customer, because as a cell phone email user you want to receive only those emails that are important to you and you want to insure that you receive only valid messages," said Chuck Scifers, Director of Business Development. The Mail-Filters performance guarantee is a powerful statement to insure our MobilEmail customers satisfaction."

The Mail-Filters technology used by MobileWebSurf combines two proprietary anti-spam weapons:   

- The Mail-Filters Bullet Signature Database that enables the detection of spammers and the messages they send.
- The Mail-Filters STAR Engine that detects spammer tricks, allowing it to catch new types of spam, like embedded content, HTML, and foreign language spam.

Mail-Filters Bullet Signatures are small, targeted, and lethal spam signatures handcrafted by human editors. Bullets are not checksums or hash values based on the whole message or parts of the message that are easily defeated by todays spammers. Instead, Bullets are based on a combination of attributes of the message that are unique to that spammer (to eliminate false positives), and repeatable from one spam message to the next. Bullets are most often crafted from information in the body of the message, but can also be developed using the subject or other header information. The Bullet Database is constantly updated to ensure effectiveness and accuracy.

The Mail-Filters STAR engine (Spammer Tricks Analysis and Response engine) looks for spammer tricks such as falsified information in the headers and other places in the message, suspicious misspellings, and other unique identifying characteristics of spam. The STAR engine looks for very specific tricks, not general factors that could generate false positives.

The Mail-Filters Anti-Spam solution is virtually immune to spammer tricks, such as adding random characters to a message or common misspelling of words. It also excels at finding the toughest kind of spam messages: embedded content spam (such as pictures or HTML with a URL link in it), HTML spam, and foreign language spam. Heuristics and statistical models (Bayesian filters) have difficulty detecting the latest kinds of spam without extensive setup and maintenance on the part of the user.

About MobileWebSurf
MobileWebSurf is a leading provider of mobile applications. With MobileWebSurf software, cellular operators, enterprises, wireless marketers, content providers, and content aggregators can automate the transformation and delivery of content and applications on any mobile device, using text, voice, graphics, SMS, and other modalities. MobileWebSurf, founded in 1999, is privately funded by Deutsche Bank, Japan Asia Investments, FahneStock Investments, Starting Point Partners, and others. The company is headquartered in Fremont, California.

The company can be reached on the web at www.mobilewebsurf.com or reached at (510) 498-8700 x 126.

About MAIL-FILTERS
Mail-Filters.com, Inc. is dedicated to protecting businesses from spam. The company develops, operates and licenses technology that seamlessly and effectively detects spam. Mail-Filters.com, Inc. has three solutions: Mail-Filters SDK for vendors that want to add anti-spam technology to their products or services, SpamCure for organizations that prefer to maintain their e-mail filtering on-site, and SpamRepellent for organizations that want Mail-Filters to host the filtering. Founded in 2001, Mail-Filters.com, Inc. is located in San Mateo, California. The company can be found on the Internet at www.Mail-Filters.com or reached at (650) 655-7700.

Contacts:

For Mail-Filters:   For MobileWebSurf:
John Murden   Chuck Scifers
VP Marketing   Director Business Development
650-655-7700   (510) 498-8700
jmurden@mail-filters.com    chucks@mobilewebsurf.com