Death2Spam coming to PCs
by Kit

Wednesday, April 14 2004

Looks like the anti-spam war has gone commercial.

Death2Spam LLC (New Zealand) has made available its flagship anti-Spam software program to the US market. The third-generation software package will be sold through software distributor Binary Research International (Glendale, WI).

Founded on the principles of market-leading accuracy, minimizing total cost of ownership and ease of use, Death2Spam has garnered critical acclaim and commercial success in New Zealand and Australia.

Employing true Bayesian analysis and High-Q heuristics, Death2Spam reaches 95% accuracy out-of-the-box and exceeds 99% accuracy in about two weeks. More impressively is its 99.99% rating on False Positives, meaning less than 1 in 10,000 legitimate messages is classified as Spam.

Death2Spam is self-learning and does not rely on black lists, keyword blocking or daily maintenance by Network Administrators. Because it is an adaptive filter, as Spam evolves, so does Death2Spam's accuracy, keeping Spam away from the Inbox.

"The best commercial server-level Bayesian filter is probably Death2Spam," states Paul Graham, former president of Viaweb and noted anti-Spam advocate. Spam Conference, hosted by Graham, is an annual event where industry leaders meet to discuss the issues caused by Spam and how to deal with them.

Death2Spam is available as a gateway solution, for organizations that want complete control over the configuration and advanced reporting, or as an SMTP proxy solution, where Death2Spam cleans the mail stream before being delivered to the company's mail server. A third method of licensing Death2Spam allows ISPs to offer it as a value-added service to their subscribers.

--- Kit