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Anti-Spam Relief
for Outlook Express® Users
Now Available from MailFrontier™
Matador™ 2.0 allows consumers
to fight back against increasingly aggressive spammers
Palo Alto, Ca, March 24, 2003 – MailFrontier, a next-generation
messaging company, today released the latest version of its popular
anti-spam product, Matador, bringing relief to millions of Outlook Express
users. Matador 2.0 offers support for Outlook Express and popular Web
mail programs including Hotmail and MSN, and IMAP when used through
the Outlook Express email client. The software also supports corporate
Exchange environments and POP3 systems such as AT&T, and Earthlink,
when using Outlook or Outlook Express.
“I tested several different products before choosing Matador,”
said Dennis Bater, a satisfied MailFrontier customer. “Matador
out-performed all other software programs by catching the most spam
and learning my preferences more quickly. It successfully screened 202
emails with 100% accuracy. As far as getting bang for my buck, Matador
hit the bull's eye for me.” Anti-spam tools are becoming a must-have
for PC users as the growth of spam continues to spiral out of control.
The cards are currently stacked against the consumer in this battle,
with Jupiter Research estimating that in 2002 the average user received
an estimated 2,300 pieces of spam e-mail. By 2007, the number is projected
to grow to 3,600 pieces.
“We believe that the fight against spam will be won by making
the venture unprofitable for spammers by blocking the delivery of junk
email to in-boxes,” said Pavni Diwanji, CEO and cofounder of MailFrontier.
“With spam becoming increasingly targeted and personal, the consequences
of losing this battle could ruin email as a viable means of communication.”
Matador Product Benefits
MailFrontier built Matador based on two basic principles: first, each
user has their own personal definition of spam, and second, only a multi-pronged
solution can hope to eliminate unwanted email. The following features
have been integrated alongside other tried and trusted tools such as
blacklists and sophisticated message filtering:
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Matador 2.0 automatically learns which people and topics are important
to you - dynamically devising and maintaining a set of personalized
preferences; |
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Matador 2.0 users collaborate with each other to identify spam
simply by hitting a junk button on their Outlook or Outlook Express
toolbar. This prevents other Matador users from receiving the same
offensive email; |
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Matador 2.0’s ground-breaking sender verification is the
ultimate inbox guardian. Suspect, unsolicited email is subjected
to an extra check and the sender is asked to answer a simple challenge
via email. Unverified emails are treated as junk; |
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Matador 2.0 makes email filtering simple- it provides a unified
program that supports Outlook, Outlook Express, and Hotmail, MSN,
and IMAP when used through Outlook Express |
Pricing and availability
Matador 2.0, a downloadable desktop client, is now available for users
of Microsoft® Outlook® (2000 and 2002) running on Windows®
98, ME, 2000 and XP and users of Outlook Express® (5.0/5.5/6.0),
Hotmail, MSN, and IMAP, for a price of $29.95.
About MailFrontier:
MailFrontier www.mailfrontier.com
is at the forefront of providing next-generation messaging security
products that make email communication more productive and secure in
the work place. High volumes of unwanted email are crippling enterprise
productivity today. MailFrontier offers innovative products to eliminate
spam, including MailFrontier Anti-Spam Gateway™ and MailFrontier
Matador™, utilizing the latest in junk mail blocking technologies,
suitable for enterprises and individual users.
MailFrontier software products protect users’ mailboxes proactively,
automatically learning about people and topics that are important to
them and devising a set of dynamic, personalized preferences. Leveraging
a combination of wide-ranging blacklists, intelligent content filters,
a global reporting network, and a groundbreaking sender verification
process, MailFrontier is uniquely positioned to guard mailboxes from
junk email.
NOTE: MailFrontier, the MailFrontier logo, Matador,
and eProfile are trademarks of MailFrontier Incorporated.
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