January 27, 2005 — (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Web hosting provider The Planet Internet Services (theplanet.com) said on Wednesday that it has deployed the Spirus email gateway in order to prevent spam, viruses and attacks against its hosted email servers.
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According to The Planet, Spirus provides redundant protection through multiple layers of filtering and scanning, and is able to adjust to the latest spamming trends.
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Spirus was designed to be an effective, affordable, and easy to administer solution, says Sam Fleitman, vice president of managed services for The Planet.
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“Spirus identifies and removes as much harmful email as possible, right at the SMTP transaction,” Fleitman says. “That keeps our customers’ servers from getting bogged down in the process of rejecting mail. And it reduces additional messages from being generated and bounced on to innocent third parties.”
