Wednesday, July 02, 2008

OzFilter 1.7 now available. Stop spam dead.

The latest edition of OzFilter 1.7 is now available.

For those who don't know about OzEfilter, OzEfilter is the result of months of research trying to beat spammers at their own game. During the research we identified spammers change messages frequently, change addresses frequently and the change the servers they send from frequently. Spam filters often treat good emails as spam and for some that can result in lost emails and even worse, lost business.

The solution to the problem however came as a result of the other group often considered a nuisance, the telemarketers. Caller ID helped to a certain extent but what really helped was being able to set the telephone so calls from friends would ring with one tone and could be answered, and calls from unknown people (nearly always a telemarketer) could be filtered using the answering machine. That enables us to accept good calls, but filter unknown callers. The same design is built into OzEfilter.

OzEfilter is used to monitor your emails at your mail server. As you receive emails from friends you add them to your conditions so emails from friends will be received. You only then need to review the list of emails from people you don't know. If you don't want the email you delete the email at the mail server.

This approach keeps unwanted emails out of your computer. We have not yet found an anti-virus software package that hasn't been beaten, so using anti-virus or anti-spyware software by itself is not enough. Using that approach by itself means it is not a matter of if you will get infected, it is only a matter of when you will get infected. Infections are often costly and inconvenient.

I use OzEfilter and could not live without it. In the last two and half years OzEfilter has deleted over 57,000 unwanted emails at the mail server safely away from my computer.

For more information on OzEfilter 1.7 visit http://www.ozefilter.com/.

May all your emails be good emails - Kelvin Eldridge

PS. OzEfilter is now a VPS partner. VPS members can now refer OzEfilter to others and continue to receive a referral reward whilst the person continues to use OzEfilter.

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