In an attempt to protect your employees from receiving embarrassing and annoying SPAM e-mail or worse still dangerous viruses you can choose from the following options:

Install SPAM filter software on all computers to detect and filter the SPAM & Virus e-mails

With this option you need to pay for the SPAM Filter software for each computer and make sure each one receives updates every day. Also because the e-mail needs to be downloaded to the pc before it can detect whether it is SPAM or a Virus you've already wasted bandwidth from your broadband connection and already run the risk of having downloaded the virus.

Install SPAM Filter software on your Mail Server to detect and filter the SPAM & Virus e-mails

Although this option makes more sense than the one above as you only need to Install the SPAM Filter on the server. You've still got the problem whereby bandwidth is being wasted as your server downloads the e-mails before deciding what to do with them. Your server is also pre-occupied with determining which of the e-mails are junk, viruses or clean when its processing power could be put to more practical use. It is also likely that your server will hold a quarantine for e-mails which wastes precious and valuable disk space.

Use a Managed service such as Pyranet MailGuard to filter all SPAM & Virus e-mails

No software to install, easy setup which is done by us. Web based tracking and management of e-mail and quarantined e-mail. Accurate SPAM filtering & Virus filtering so that only clean e-mail ever reaches your server and computers. This is a fully managed and maintained service.

Added benefits of using Pyranet MailGuard include:

• Adding automatic disclaimers to all Outbound e-mail
• Redundancy backup for your mail server, if your mail server was to go down or your internet connection drops then Pyranet MailGuard will hold the e-mail for you until it comes back up. Or we can even route your e-mail to a new destination or give you webmail access to it.
• Sophisticated tracking of inbound and outbound e-mail