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2008-02-20
LinuxMagic appoints new Sales and Marketing Director
LinuxMagic, a leading global developer in email and anti-spam technology for the ISP and Telco industry would like to announce the appointment of its new Sales and Marketing Director, Mr. Howard Wu. Mr. Wu has had extensive experience in the tech world for over 10 years, ranging from U.S., China, and Canada. " Mr. Wu's vast experience in business development, finance and marketing are precisely the skill sets required to take LinuxMagic to the next level as we continue to see record growth in our anti-spam products." Company CEO Michael Peddemors said.
2008-02-18
SpamRats now 4 million IP's , blocks 20% of traffic
SpamRats Database now has over 4 million IP addresses listed in its worst offender database, representing mostly infected PC's, Trojans and Bots used to send out Spam, dictionary attacks, and brute force password attacks.
And these Trojans and Bots sources are responsible for 20% of the traffic detected at mail servers. These represent the worst sources of attackers and spammers detected by the Spam Rats detection tools.
2008-01-15
SpamRats blocks over 3 million IP Addresses
SpamRats Database now has over 3 million IP addresses listed in it's worst offender database, representing mostly infected PC's, Trojans and Bots used to send out Spam, dictionary attacks, and brute force password attacks.
LinuxMagic's flagship email server product 'MagicMail' with it's built in Anti-Spam technology, designed for the ISP and Telco's has been using IP reputation in it's servers to help block connections from Trojans and Bots, to reduce server loads and help in the fight against Spam.
2008-01-10
Choice Communications chooses MagicMail Solutions
LinuxMagic a leading edge provider of Mail Server software and anti-spam solutions for the ISP and Telco industry, is happy to announce that Choice Communications has chosen the 'MagicMail' high volume email solution to provide email for their business.
Choice Communications, a large full service ISP based out of St. Martin, Virgin Islands, has chosen LinuxMagic's mail server solution, MagicMail and it's Best of Breed integrated anti-spam technologies to provide email and spam protection services for its customer's 20,000 email boxes. By selecting MagicMail's high volume email and anti-spam package, Choice Communication will now better protect its customers and dramatically reduce its email administration costs, and improve it's email service offerings.
As the reputation of the MagicMail servers continue to grow, LinuxMagic is experiencing more and more sales beyond continental North America, and is looking to expand into both new and emerging markets world wide.
2007-09-10
U.S. Courts Help Protect Internet Service Providers
With the recent court judgment that ruled in favour of anti-spam company Kaspersky Labs, the courts have now given Internet Service Providers (ISPs) and their customers the right to 'Just Say No...' to email marketing and other types of spam.
Wizard IT, a leading Canadian anti-spam solutions provider, is delighted with the outcome of the case, which now gives consumers and their Internet providers the legal right to restrict access to material that the provider or user considers to be “obscene, lewd, lascivious, filthy, excessively violent, harassing, or otherwise objectionable”.
2007-09-09
Delmarva Online Selects MagicMail To Protect Its Customers
LinuxMagic a leading edge provider of Mail Server software and anti-spam solutions has agreed to provide its 'MagicMail' high volume email solution to Delmarva Online, a large Internet service provider based in Salisbury, Maryland.
Delmarva has chosen LinuxMagic's server software, MagicMail, and anti-spam technologies to provide email and spam protection services for its customer's 45,000 email boxes. By selecting MagicMaill's high volume email and anti-spam package, Delmarva will now better protect its customers and dramatically reduce its email administration costs.
2007-08-16
SpamRats Running Rampant on the Internet
SURREY, BC -- Wizard IT Services As security threats continue to plague email and Internet users, Wizard IT recently launched its newest project, SpamRats.com. The much anticipated SpamRats project is now up and running and is being introduced as a 'Solution Set' of fully-automated and free Real Time BlackLists (RBLs), designed to target various Trojans, Bots, infected PCs and other IP address which are being used to send out spam.
Building on its reputation as a leader in anti-spam technologies, Wizard IT is now offering the public these anti-spam tools for free through the SpamRats website (www.spamrats.com) and through MagicMail, a product offering from its sister company LinuxMagic. The tools provided on the SpamRats website are designed to be used use by anyone and on almost any email server.
2007-07-31
U.S. Email Marketers Now Leading Producers Of Unwanted Bulk Mail
SURREY, BC -- LINUXMAGIC According to the latest statistics coming from Internet Service Providers (ISPs), 'Commercial Email Offerings' have now taken over from the traditional types of spam as the leading source of 'Unwanted Bulk Email' (UBE) being sent worldwide.
This, so called, 'Grey Area Spam' has gotten so rampant that in some cases recipients are receiving up to 20 offerings per day from the same marketing company. Although many of these companies are compliant with CAN-SPAM (a U.S. legal requirement for commercial email marketers to follow), the amount of email that they send is so prolific that it is costing businesses an estimated $10 billion each year. These cost include technical expenditures and lost productivity in order to deal with the unwanted email.
2007-07-23
LinuxMagic Fights Spam With Their Enhanced Version of MagicMail
Surrey, BC -- LINUXMAGIC -- As security threats from viruses and spam continue to grow and plague Internet and email users, LinuxMagic, a British Columbia based Linux support and product development company, recently launched its latest version of MagicMail. The latest version enables users to take advantage of enhancements made to combat viruses, spam and email marketers. MagicMail is an industry leading mail server solution specifically designed for Internet Service Providers (ISPs).
2007-05-08
LinuxMagic at Spring ISPCON 2007
Surrey, BC -- May 10, 2007 -- LINUXMAGIC will join more than 2500 Internet industry professionals on May 23-25th in Orlando, Florida for ISPCON, the definitive event for wired and wireless service providers. Come drop by our booth number 312.
You can also join us at "Email: The Crucial Impact it Plays in Customer Retention and Your Bottom Line" presented by LinuxMagic's President/CEO Michael Peddemors in Salon 12.