We are currently performing a major update of the SpamDrain web. Please stay tunes for everything to fall in place.
Network maintanance work in datacenter
There will be some maintanance work on network infrastructure in one of the SpamDrain data centers the coming two nights (CET time):
Wednesday 03/16/2011 between 0:30am and 6:00am CET (UTC/GMT +1 hour)
Thursday 03/17/2011 between 0:30am and 6:00am CET (UTC/GMT +1 hour)
This should not affect SpamDrain as redundant systems will maintain normal service during this time. Should you still experience problems during this time please be patient. Things should go back to normal at least after 8am.
Support closed for holidays
Our support will be closed during the holidays and re-opens again January 10 2011. Phone support will be closed and we will only answer urgent support cases via e-mail.
We wish you all a
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!
We will donate 0,01 SEK for each blocked spam this week
This week the charity event Musikhjälpen is being held in Malmö, Sweden. Swedish Radio and Swedish Television run the event and raise money for children’s rights under the parole “Children are not for sale”.
SpamDrain has decided to donate 1 öre (0,01 SEK) for each spam we block during the week of the event. A normal week we block about 700 000 spam.
Amount to be donated (now final):
SEK 6883,34
counter will stop at 2010-12-19 when Musikhjälpen ends.
Remember, children are not for sale!
More info: www.musikhjalpen.se (Swedish).
Expert warns of insufficient virus protection
There is an interesting article on viruses and filters in a Swedish newspaper today. Experts warn us that some filters are not efficient enough. They claim that some filters only catch 30% of the harmful e-mails. The reason for this being that the virus makers are quick at making new version and varieties of the code so it is hard to keep a traditional filter updated.
At SpamDrain we use artificial intelligence to continually refine the filtering process. This means that the filter can ‘learn’ what is spam and what is valid e-mail. The filter can therefore keep itself updated and quickly learn new tricks used by hackers to get their e-mails through spam filters.
This works quite nicely in Spamdrain when filtering spam and e-mail viruses. It would though be interesting to know if one could do something similar with desktop virus protection. I know that anti-virus companies have done some efforts in trying to “learn” the patterns of viruses and block viruses they don’t know about, but it’s unclear how well these techniques work.
Move of remaining servers to new data center
The remaining servers will be moved the coming Monday, November 22, starting from 11.30 pm and the move should be finished on Tuesday, November 23, by 8 am CET. Once again, we have taken the necessary steps to ensure that users won’t be affected by this. Should you still experience problems during this time please be patient. Things should go back to normal at least after 8 am.
SpamDrain is moving to a new data center
During the next few weeks our servers will be moved to a new data center. The move will be done gradually with the first servers the coming Monday, November 15, starting from 11.30 pm and will be finished on Tuesday, November 16, by 8 am CET. We have taken the necessary steps to ensure that users won’t be affected by this. Should you still experience problems during this time please be patient. Things should go back to normal at least after 8 am.
The rest of our servers will be moved at later dates and we will announce every move on our blog, Facebook and Twitter.
New Android application available in Market
We are proud to announce that SpamDrain for Android 1.1 now is available in Market. Go to Market and search for spamdrain in your phone or simply wait for the automatic notification in Android.
With this new version you will now be able to access your filtered messages.
New features in 1.1:
- View archive which contains blocked messages.
- Deliver blocked messages to inbox.
- View filtered but not blocked messages.
- Report missed spam.
- Better support for different screen sizes.
What are you waiting for – go to Market and upgrade!
Feel free to rate us and write an excellent review.
If you find a bug, tell us instead and we will fix it :-).
Some screen shots:
Support closed for summer holidays
Our support will be closed for the summer holidays starting at July 19 2010 and re-opens again August 16 2010. We will answer your e-mails as usual during the working days, but the phone support will be closed.
Have a nice summer!
Support closed on Friday 25 June
Please note that due to Midsummer’s holiday in Sweden, SpamDrain support will be closed on Friday 25 June and will open again on Monday 28 June, 9 am CET.