Prince_Serendip
August 27th, 2002, 12:24 AM
MailFrontier(TM) Launches Matador(TM) Eliminating Spam Instantly and Secures $5 Million in Series A Financing
Free Matador Beta Available Now Enables Users to Block All Junk Email PALO ALTO, Calif., Aug. 26 /PRNewswire/ -- MailFrontier, a next-generation messaging security company, today released the beta version of its first anti-spam product, Matador, and announced the closing of a $5 million Series A financing round, jointly led by Draper Fisher Jurvetson and New Enterprise Associates (NEA). The beta version of Matador can be downloaded for free at the link below.
The company also announced its management team and outlined its mission to make email communication more productive and secure in the workplace. "People are crying out for an anti-spam product that truly eliminates junk mail," said Pavni Diwanji, CEO and co-founder of MailFrontier. "Existing solutions are typically built around a single feature such as content filtering or blacklisting offenders and as a result they fail to catch much spam. We believe there is no single silver bullet -- instead we plan to give our users a box of ammunition to fight junk email."
Junk Email - A Growing Problem
The problem is reaching crisis proportions as the cost of spamming decreases and becomes highly automated. Since current approaches to eliminating junk email are not effective, the resulting large volumes of unwanted email are affecting worker productivity. "One of the challenges in fighting spam is that individuals often have different definitions of what constitutes spam," said Mark Levitt, research VP for Collaborative Computing at IDC. "MailFrontier's Matador is designed to provide an automated, customizable desktop and server solution that reflects each individual's criteria for blocking unsolicited email."
Matador - A Multi-Pronged Attack on Spam
MailFrontier has developed a multi-faceted approach to tackle the problem of spam for individual users. Its first product, Matador, is a downloadable desktop client aimed at individual users of Microsoft(R) Outlook(R) (2000 and 2002) running on Windows(R) 98, ME, 2000 and XP. Matador is differentiated from other approaches by the following benefits:
-- Matador automatically learns which people and topics are important to you -- dynamically devising and maintaining a set of personalized preferences;
-- Matador users collaborate with each other to identify spam simply by hitting a junk button on the Outlook toolbar. This prevents other Matador users from receiving the same offensive email;
-- Matador's ground-breaking sender verification is the ultimate in-box guardian. Suspect, unsolicited email is subjected to an extra check and the sender is asked to answer a simple challenge via email. Unauthorized emails are treated as junk after a period of time. MailFrontier Matador integrates these anti-spam weapons alongside other tried and trusted tools such as blacklists and message filtering.
http://www.mailfrontier.com/
Free Matador Beta Available Now Enables Users to Block All Junk Email PALO ALTO, Calif., Aug. 26 /PRNewswire/ -- MailFrontier, a next-generation messaging security company, today released the beta version of its first anti-spam product, Matador, and announced the closing of a $5 million Series A financing round, jointly led by Draper Fisher Jurvetson and New Enterprise Associates (NEA). The beta version of Matador can be downloaded for free at the link below.
The company also announced its management team and outlined its mission to make email communication more productive and secure in the workplace. "People are crying out for an anti-spam product that truly eliminates junk mail," said Pavni Diwanji, CEO and co-founder of MailFrontier. "Existing solutions are typically built around a single feature such as content filtering or blacklisting offenders and as a result they fail to catch much spam. We believe there is no single silver bullet -- instead we plan to give our users a box of ammunition to fight junk email."
Junk Email - A Growing Problem
The problem is reaching crisis proportions as the cost of spamming decreases and becomes highly automated. Since current approaches to eliminating junk email are not effective, the resulting large volumes of unwanted email are affecting worker productivity. "One of the challenges in fighting spam is that individuals often have different definitions of what constitutes spam," said Mark Levitt, research VP for Collaborative Computing at IDC. "MailFrontier's Matador is designed to provide an automated, customizable desktop and server solution that reflects each individual's criteria for blocking unsolicited email."
Matador - A Multi-Pronged Attack on Spam
MailFrontier has developed a multi-faceted approach to tackle the problem of spam for individual users. Its first product, Matador, is a downloadable desktop client aimed at individual users of Microsoft(R) Outlook(R) (2000 and 2002) running on Windows(R) 98, ME, 2000 and XP. Matador is differentiated from other approaches by the following benefits:
-- Matador automatically learns which people and topics are important to you -- dynamically devising and maintaining a set of personalized preferences;
-- Matador users collaborate with each other to identify spam simply by hitting a junk button on the Outlook toolbar. This prevents other Matador users from receiving the same offensive email;
-- Matador's ground-breaking sender verification is the ultimate in-box guardian. Suspect, unsolicited email is subjected to an extra check and the sender is asked to answer a simple challenge via email. Unauthorized emails are treated as junk after a period of time. MailFrontier Matador integrates these anti-spam weapons alongside other tried and trusted tools such as blacklists and message filtering.
http://www.mailfrontier.com/