Roaring Penguin Software Announces Free-License Edition of CanIt Anti-Spam Solution

CanIt anti-spam/anti-virus software now available free of charge to organizations with up to 50 e-mail users

Ottawa, Ontario, Canada (PRWEB) March 1, 2005 -- Organizations with Linux or UNIX expertise can now implement a leading commercial anti-spam/anti-virus solution at no charge. Roaring Penguin Software today announced that its acclaimed CanIt anti-spam software will be available at no cost to organizations with up to fifty e-mail users.

CanIt, a server-side anti-spam solution for Linux/UNIX servers, was released commercially in 2002 to reduce the time required to manage spam and to prevent the loss of legitimate e-mail. The product quickly became the foundation for a popular line of anti-spam/anti-virus solutions used by enterprises, universities, colleges and government offices worldwide.

David Skoll, Roaring Penguins President and CEO and a leading advocate of Linux , said, CanIt was founded upon open-source technologies and the input of the open-source community. CanIt has provided a foundation for a successful commercial product line and we thought this free offering would be a fitting way to say 'Thank You' to the Linux community." He added, Anyone running a mail server knows how much time and effort are tied up managing spam. CanIt reduces the hassles associated with handling junk e-mail and is intuitive for system administrators who've worked with open-source filtering tools in the past."

Product Availability
The Free CanIt version is available to any organization running a mail server and can be used to protect up to 50 mailboxes. The software can either be installed directly on a Linux mail server, or on a dedicated Linux machine to protect non-Linux servers. Included with the product is Clam AntiVirus software. Free CanIt can be downloaded from this website: http://www.roaringpenguin.com/anti_spam/free_canit.php?=pr

For environments with more than 50 mailboxes the professional version of CanIt, CanIt-PRO, provides an advanced graphical user interface, per-user preference controls and is currently in use in organizations and campuses of up to 120,000 users. For businesses that are not using Linux/UNIX mail servers, the CanIt Appliance serves as a mail gateway between the Internet and any e-mail server. Both commercial solutions are available through Roaring Penguin.

About CanIt
CanIt is based on the open-source MIMEDefang mail inspection and manipulation software and provides a simple web-based interface to rapidly scan quarantined e-mail messages, release legitimate messages and deal with problem e-mail. In addition to content-based scanning and Bayesian statistical analysis, CanIt incorporates proprietary heuristics, providing a 'cocktail' approach to fighting spam.

About Roaring Penguin
Founded in 1999, Roaring Penguin Software Inc., specializes in e-mail filtering. The company focuses on fighting spam at the mail server, with the acclaimed MIMEDefang and CanIt product lines. Today, Roaring Penguin develops, deploys and supports its spam- and virus-fighting products for customers that include campuses, ISPs, web hosts, large enterprises, and government offices. For more information visit www.roaringpenguin.com

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