SpamTitan once again records excellent spam catch rate, blocking almost 100% of spam in May 2011 Virus Bulletin test.

SpamTitan today announced that it has once again performed well in the highly respected Virus Bulletin Spam awards. As a result of this performance SpamTitan earns the much coveted Virus Bulletin Award and again receives strong independent endorsement for its highly effective and easy to use spam filtering solution. 

This month’s test (May 2011) marks SpamTitan’s tenth entry and also the product’s tenth VB Spam award. The Virus Bulletin is an independent global publication specific to the field of viruses and related malware. SpamTitan, which runs as a virtual machine under VMware had the highest overall score in the January test and has once again recorded an excellent result blocking 99.94% of spam. Over the past number of years, spam has grown from a mere nuisance to business users into a major field of criminal activity, the consequences of not blocking this spam can have very damaging consequences.

Martijn Grooten, author of the Virus Bulletin Anti-spam comparative review stated that this performance was  ‘the product’s tenth VB Spam award. It had been some time since I last looked at the interface, but on using it to add black- and whitelists I remembered how easily it worked.’ “This test validates the market-leading effectiveness of the SpamTitan spam filtering solution, simply put we catch more spam than anyone else,” said Ronan Kavanagh CEO.

“We are seeing a  growing number of new customers moving to SpamTitan from other solutions, the clear message we are hearing is that once customers deploy SpamTitan they are see an  immediate and dramatic reduction in the level of spam. These independent test results prove that our hard work is paying off and our customers are reaping the rewards in terms of having the very best protection from spam and viruses at an extremely competitive price.”