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What is SpamDistiller™?

SpamDistiller™ is a program which automatically filters all incoming e-mail directly on your mail server so that you never have to download large quantities of spam and/or virus infected e-mail.

SpamDistiller™ for Linux/UNIX is compatible with sendmail, qmail, exim, postfix and any other Linux/UNIX mail server.

Fact: SpamDistiller™ can have a 85-95% spam and virus find rate with 0 false positives.



INTRODUCTION

We developed SpamDistiller™ as a by-product of a new product we are currently developing which automatically answers incoming e-mail in a number of foreign languages. We found that spam and viruses were the first problem we had to deal with. Since no product on the market offered zero false positives we went about building our own spam and virus removal engine.

SpamDistiller™ is compatible with sendmail, qmail, exim, postfix and any other Linux/UNIX mail server software. We monitor all the latest and greatest spamming tricks and have around 20,000 anti-spam and anti-virus rules. We use our very own software to protect our company and the most annoying fact about all known anti-spam software is that it not only eliminates spam but also eliminates useful messages.

The biggest advantage our software brings to the table as compared to other similar products is that we have a way of guaranteeing that you get no (zero) false positives. Some, but very little, spam and close to no viruses does get through but it is a very small percentage. We update our rule set up to 1000 times a day (we can do more updates as new rules come up) within a 24 hour human monitoring shift. As soon as even one single anti-spam or anti-virus rule is found it is immediately sent to all SpamDistiller™ installations around the world. Sometimes due to the new tricks that spammers come up with the application itself (engine) must be also renewed which is also done automatically.

The other advantage of SpamDistiller™ comes from its core. It is written in C/C++ language, and uses the fastest and most effective non-parallel algorithm in the world which runs in O(N log(2)N) time, where N is related to the size of the e-mail and the total number of rules. That makes SpamDistiller™ extremely fast - even one day when it will have more than a 100 million anti-spam rules!

All currently known spam tricks are dealt with. Any new trick is solved usually within 1-2 hours of it being detected. SpamDistiller™ also has a way of automatically learning new spammer tricks in cases where it is 100% sure that it is dealing with spam or virus related e-mail only.


The bottom line is: our technology at all time guarantees zero false positives if used properly.




BENEFITS


Time Savings per day


1. less time used to download e-mail: - save approx. 90% of your time

  - time needed to download e-mail (less is better)
 
Graph 1
Red square without SpamDistiller™
Green square with SpamDistiller™
 
[hours]


 
2. less time used to read and remove spam e-mail - save approx. 87% of your time

  - time needed to read and remove spam e-mail (less is better)
 
Graph 2
Red square without SpamDistiller™
Green square with SpamDistiller™
 
[hours]


 
3. more time left to answer important e-mail and therefore customers are much more satisfied - have approx. 150% more of your time

  - time left to answer important e-mail (more is better)
 
Graph 3
Red square without SpamDistiller™
Green square with SpamDistiller™
 
[hours]
 


Security

1. Automatically removes all e-mail with the attachments in which viruses come which are most commonly: .scr, .bat, .exe, .com and .pif





Here is what a typical e-mail user will see on their screen:


Before using SpamDistiller™:

100 e-mails = 70 spam + 30 useful
After using SpamDistiller™:

100 e-mails: 5 spam + 95 useful
Animation
Time required to delete spam e-mail





Operations Flowchart



Flowchart





One Month Free Trial (this is a server version only and it is not for use on a personal computer)

Click here to download a one month free trial of: SpamDistiller™ - Server version for Linux





Price

US$ 199 for a per server per year license with automatic daily upgrades to SpamDistiller.generic.block which ensures that you will get maximum anti-spamming and anti-virus protection before you ever receive a spam or virus ridden e-mail.

You can order SpamDistiller™ through our secure on-line order form. To order SpamDistiller™ follow this link.





How does SpamDistiller work?

SpamDistiller™ Server Version is a program which sits on the mail server and filters all incoming e-mail destined for a given e-mail account. Each incoming e-mail is scanned against keywords/keyphrases contained in the SpamDistiller.generic.block and SpamDistiller.user.block files. Keywords/keyphrases are any string contained in the Subject, From, Body or Attachment of an incoming e-mail. There are five basic types of keywords/keyphrases which can be found in the SpamDistiller.generic.block and SpamDistiller.user.block files and these are for example:


1. |allow All e-mails are always allowed to pass regardless of any other keyword/keyphrase that might match. When you receive e-mails in this category in most cases the top of the e-mail will contain the string: M_ALLOW and the reason why it was allowed to pass.


2. |bounce e-mails are returned to the sender telling the sender that your e-mail address does not exist. (Examples: m_bounce, m_bounce base64, m_bounce image)


3. |delete e-mails are simply deleted. (example)


3b. Attachments with Viruses In the SpamDistiller.config file you can specify which attachments are not allowed in any e-mail. The default values are: .scr, .bat, .exe, .com and .pif
By disallowing all e-mail containing any such attachments you are protected against all viruses which contain such an attachment. This protection will not work against viruses of the msblaster.exe type which are not transmitted via e-mail but it will protect you against 95% of known viruses. The system works quite well.


4. M_DEFAULT

No keyword/keyphrase has matched the e-mail and the e-mail is let through. When you receive e-mails in this category in most cases the top of the e-mail will contain the string: M_DEFAULT (example). If the e-mail should not be in this category you can correct the mistake by adding new keywords/keyphrases is to the SpamDistiller.user.block file. The best keywords/keyphrases for |bounce or |delete are:


General Discussion

Because of the M_ALLOW keywords/keyphrases you can freely use almost any string you like form M_BOUNCE or M_DELETE because you will always know that M_ALLOW has precedence over all other keywords/keyphrases.

We strongly advise that you create a list of all the e-mail addresses from which you always wish to receive e-mails and mark them as |allow. We also advise that you make a list of all the very frequently occurring keywords/keyphrases that appear in your daily correspondence as well as |allow keywords/keyphrases inside of the SpamDistiller.user.block file. Examples of how you do this are shown in the sample SpamDistiller.user.block here:

More than 100 million keywords/keyphrases can be entered into SpamDistiller.generic.block and in SpamDistiller.user.block.


SpamDistiller.generic.block

  <img |bounce
<form |bounce
<iframe |bounce
</form>|bounce
$ imperdível $|bounce
$$save$$|bounce
$10,000 is waiting for you|bounce
$10,000 waiting for you|bounce
$50 free from virtual city|bounce
$500 holiday giveaway|bounce
$9.95 month for unlimited internet service with people pc|bounce
$user - free movie trailer|bounce
%72%78%6dedz.biz:8080|bounce
(095) 136-61-21|bounce
(095) 240-48548-916-536-41758-902-147-5473|bounce
(095) 248-1151|bounce
www.hostallups.com|bounce
bmoses_wn@cooking-web.com|bounce
Newton Gwarada|bounce
+27-826 772 992|bounce
Newton_gwarada@gaza.net|bounce
postmaster@fat.org.br|delete
www.smarttdecisions.biz|bounce
www.eclipseservice.org|bounce
lizbath@lycos.com|bounce
elizabeth.diaz@voila.fr|bounce
06.22.65.31.08|bounce
www.ezherbal.biz|bounce
CARR00 <careers@bdc.ca|delete>
1-646-304-8173|bounce
root@drobecek.hosting90.cz|bounce
www.surferbar.com|bounce


SpamDistiller.user.block

  String contained in on-line order form|allow
Sting contained in a particular products|allow
Exact product name|allow
Web domain from which you always want to receive e-mail from|allow
e-mail or part of e-mail address from which you always want to receive e-mail from|allow
100013.2154@compuserve.com|allow
100065.1744@compuserve.com|allow
100275.3677@compuserve.com|allow



M_BOUNCE

bounce image 1


M_BOUNCE base64

bounce image 2


M_BOUNCE image

bounce image 3


M_DELETE

delete image


M_DEFAULT

m_default




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