Ontelix Chooses Mail-Filters' Anti-Spam Filter for Its Family of eOffice Appliances

Ontelix Chooses Mail-Filters' Anti-Spam Filter for Its Family of eOffice Appliances

Leading Group Applications Supplier Ontelix Adds to the More Than 2 Billion Messages a Day Currently Filtered by the Mail-Filters Technology

SAN MATEO, Calif., Jan. 13 /PRNewswire/ -- Mail-Filters.com, Inc., developers of technologically advanced spam filtration solutions with guaranteed detection performance, and Ontelix, Inc., a leading supplier of web applications servers announce the selection of Mail-Filters as the new anti-spam technology for the Ontelix's eOffice In A Box.

"At Ontelix, we realize that group applications that allow employees to communicate and collaborate from anywhere increase productivity significantly," says Yuric Hannart, founder and CEO of Ontelix, "especially for small to medium sized companies. We offer low cost solutions (up to 70% less than MS Exchange for total cost of ownership) that simplify the process of integrated e-mail deployment, shared calendar, file storage, and other web based applications implementation with ongoing IT support for our customers. Stopping spam is a key part of those solutions. The Mail-Filters technology, being used as it is to filter more than 2 billion messages a day, has proven to be an industry leader at stopping spam. This is the leader we chose to partner with."

Ontelix's eOffice In A Box is a plug and play device. It works the way communication should work: seamlessly and transparently. It provides customized domain names (like "John@anydomain.com") with no restriction on mailbox sizes. It provides POP3, IMAP, SMTP and web-based e-mail access. It offers full-featured e-mail software and group applications including web site hosting, backup and restore service with assured network redundancy.

"We've always prided ourselves on breaking through barriers that have baffled other filtering solutions," says Ben Westbrook, CEO of Mail-Filters. "We've developed new proprietary technology that allows unprecedented catch rates, false positive rates and throughput. Ontelix has taken full advantage of that accuracy in its e-mail appliances. While other anti-spam technologies may be better known to some, it's been proven that our technology offers significant performance and catch rate advantages.

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

The Mail-Filters Bullet Signature Database that enables the detection of spammers and the messages they send. 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 today's 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) that detects spammer tricks, allowing it to catch new types of spam, like embedded content, HTML, and foreign language spam. It looks for 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 ONTELIX

Ontelix Networks was founded in the summer of 2003 to address the needs of Small to Medium Businesses. It offers an integrated solution, eOffice In A Box, that allows employees to communicate and collaborate from anywhere with an Internet connection. The solution comes preconfigured and ready for connection. It requires no additional IT consulting service to maintain and operate. With eOffice In a Box connection to information is fast, secure and reliable. The result is increased productivity and profitability.

Ontelix is located in Santa Clara, California and can be found on the internet at http://www.ontelix.com/ or reached at (866)-ONTELIX

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: SpamRepellent for organizations that want Mail-Filters to host the filtering, SpamCure for organizations that prefer to maintain their e-mail filtering on-site and the StarEngine SDK for vendors that want to add anti-spam technology to their products or services. 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.

NOTE: Mail-Filters, Mail-Filters.com, SpamCure, SpamRepellent, Bullet Signature, STAR Engine and StarEngine SDK are trademarks of Mail-Filters.com, Inc. The names of actual companies and products mentioned herein may be the trademarks of their respective owners.

All other brands or products are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders.

For Mail-Filters: For Ontelix:
John Murden Yuric Hannart
VP Marketing CEO
650-655-7759 408-506-0847
jmurden@mail-filters.comyuric@ontelix.com


Source: Mail-Filters.com, Inc.

CONTACT: John Murden, VP Marketing of Mail-Filters.com, Inc.,
+1-650-655-7759, or jmurden@mail-filters.com; or Yuric Hannart, CEO of
Ontelix, +1-408-506-0847, or yuric@ontelix.com

Web site: http://www.ontelix.com/

Web site: http://www.mail-filters.com/


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