BERLIN and HEIDELBERG, Germany, June 10 /PRNewswire/ --

- MAAWG General Meeting: Leading German Telecom Service Provider
O2 Protects its Customers' E-mail Accounts With eXpurgate From Eleven

O2 is using eXpurgate, the unique spam filter and email categorisation
service from Berlin-based security specialist eleven, to protect its
customers' inboxes comprehensively against spam and phishing mails, eleven
has announced on the occasion of the 13th General Meeting of the Messaging
Anti-Abuse Working Group (MAAWG) in Heidelberg, Germany. O2 had been on the
lookout for a new solution to arm them against ever-increasing volumes of
spam, now and in the future. The decision in favour of eXpurgate was clinched
by its exceptionally high spam recognition rate, the elimination - due to the
way the system operates - of false positives (emails that are mistakenly
categorised as spam) for business-related emails, and the low levels of
administration and hardware required.

"With the vast number of emails that find their way through our server
every week, and the ever-increasing volumes of spam flying around, we need an
anti-spam solution that ensures a negligible amount of spam gets into our
customers' inboxes whilst simultaneously avoiding wrongly rejecting important
emails as spam. eXpurgate is the perfect solution for this," says Dr. Klaus
SchÀfer, head of mobile portals at Telefónica O2 Germany. He summarises
eXpurgate's strengths thus: "The extent of spam levels affecting our
customers was significantly reduced, and without the occurrence of false
positives. Another plus is that since installation, which only took a few
hours, maintenance work has remained at an absolute minimum."

But there was another important factor in the choice of a new anti-spam
solution: the need to protect against future spam developments. "We've been
looking for a solution that can not only deal with further growth in spam
levels but will also identify new types of spam quickly and unfailingly.
eXpurgate accomplishes both of these things very effectively," says Dr. Klaus
SchÀfer.

The eXpurgate anti-spam solution not only searches email content, it
also checks them for the one criterion common to all spam mails - the fact
that they are mass mailings. eXpurgate reduces every email to a code, made
up of just a few bytes (a kind of digital "fingerprint"), that is then
compared with the codes of other emails. The greater the frequency with
which the same or similar email is sent out within a short timeframe, the
greater the possibility that it will be spam. Reducing emails to a tiny code
conserves IT resources and ensures that even large volumes of spam can be
dealt with effectively. What's more, the mass mail criterion allows the spam
recognition rate to remain unaffected by any new tricks and techniques
developed by spammers.

eleven - email security made in Germany

eleven is Germany's leading email security provider. eXpurgate is the
unique spam filter and email categorisation service that offers reliable
protection against spam and phishing mails, recognises potentially dangerous
emails and differentiates between individual mails and any kind of bulk
mail. What's more, eXpurgate also offers a powerful email firewall and a
comprehensive range of options for protecting against viruses.

More than 30,000 businesses use the eXpurgate service. eXpurgate checks
and categorises up to 1 billion emails every day. Customers include internet
service providers like T-Online and freenet as well as numerous well-known
businesses and organisations, amongst them the BMW Group, the Association of
German Banks, RTL, Tobit Software AG and Wall AG. Further information can be
found at http://www.eleven.de.

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