Email Defense Spam costs you money! How much? A whopping $874 per year for each employee in lost productivity (Nucleus Research). We Are IT can block 98.5% of the spam that is being sent to your staff, helping you recover that lost productivity. Our new spam and virus filtering service, which is powered by MX Logic, costs as little as $1 per user per month. It is very easy to set up and use. To make it even easier to recapture time lost to spam, our solution requires no software or hardware installations. Read below for more information or call us at 816.941.6800. You might think that a solution that costs so little would not be efficient or trustworthy. Fortunate for you, our spam filtering solution is extremely dependable and is extremely fast.  We use redundant data centers located 800 miles apart with redundant internet connections and a bank of servers at each location to process your mail. All this redundancy and processing power results in split second processing times and 99.999% system availability. The architecture used to filter your E-mail uses five spam filtering techniques which are constantly being updated to keep up with new methods used by spammers. All mail that is blocked is stored in a private quarantine area. On a daily or weekly basis, your end users will receive an E-mail that lists all the mail in their private quarantine. With a few simple clicks, end users can easily read and release messages that are held in the quarantine. This puts control into the hands of your end users saving time and avoiding the need to get your network administrators involved. Click here to use our Spam Cost Calculator to calculate how much spam is costing your business. Ranging from $1 to $2.25 per user per month you can benefit from one of three levels of filtering. Email Defense - Critical: This package includes the following features: Email Attack Protection Advanced Spam Blocking Triple Virus and Worm Scanning Content and Attachment Filtering Fraud Protection Email Threat Quarantine: Admin and End-User MX Control Console admin and reporting tool Email Defense - Ultimate: This package includes all of the features available in the Critical level plus the following features: Inbound and Outbound Message Filtering Fail Safe Disaster Recovery Service Online Access to E-mail while using the Fail Safe Disaster Recovery Service Call us at 816.941.6800 so we can help you avoid all that spam. Here's what Dena Sexton, Internal Accounting Manager of Searcy Financial Services has to say about our spam filtering service: "Some months ago we noticed a heavy increase in the amount of spam we received every day. We wasted time each morning sifting through our emails and were continually bombarded with more spam throughout the day. We Are IT's filtering solution has been a huge relief and a big time saver. It's amazing that such an inexpensive solution is so effective and yet so easy for us to use." Web Defense Have a problem with computer users accessing non-business related websites? Up to 25% of the world’s 600 million computer users may have been infected by malware and be participating in a botnet and not even know it. Malware is a general category of malicious software that infects or accesses your computer, without your permission, often for nefarious purposes. Worms and trojans are examples of malware. A software program that can be written by virtually anyone, malware enters your computer in several ways. It comes hidden, bundled with other programs; it may come from a website, pretending to be software you need to download from that site; or, through a hole in Internet Explorer, like a virus. Botnet is a jargon term for a collection of software robots which run autonomously. It refers generally to a network of compromised computers that can be controlled remotely (not by you) and is used to create and send spam or viruses, “phishing” attacks for personal information theft, to hide pornograpy or to flood a network with messages, ultimately disabling it. Tens of thousands of computer systems can be linked together and run under a common command and control system. While connected to the Internet, your computer can be invaded by a virus or trojan and then hijacked to become part of a botnet. Your computer is compromised by a trojan which opens a channel and then waits for commands from the person or system in charge of the botnet. An example of an open channel would be online chat or even casual Internet browsing. Once your computer has become compromised it is called a “zombie” computer because it is being controlled by someone other than you, and you likely will not even know. In June, 2007 the FBI announced that they had arrested three men in connection with over one million home computers in the United States which had been hijacked to become a botnet. There is also malware that will track and record all your keyboard and mouse activity. This can include the personal financial information you provide in an otherwise secure environment, such as shopping or paying bills online. The information the malware was sent to gather is sent back to the “mother ship” for later use. After making entry into your computer through a trojan or a worm, one particular malware program can peruse your C: drive looking for email addresses, both yours and those in your email address book. An example of what they might do would be using your email address as a return address for distribution of illicit images such as child pornography. The botnet business is thriving. Lists of compromised computers are sold to hackers and spammers who can then hack into or solicit your personal information. Botnets want horsepower and your Internet address. That is not an email address, but an address assigned to you by your Internet Service Provider. You may not even know what it is. You are merely a conduit to them, and often a conduit used for malevolent purposes. Our website filtering service, which is powered by MX Logic, is an extremely cost efficient and a very effective means to ensure that your computers and the electronic information that they contain do not fall victim to these types of attacks. For more information, please call us at 816.941.6800.