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Thoughtbus provides the most comprehensive anti-virus / worm protection and anti-spam service available from any hosted Microsoft Exchange service provider on the market today. Don't put your computer security at risk by less robust technology.

Our standard and optional anti-spam service features will ensure your Thoughtbus inbox remains free of productivity-sapping spam.

The Thoughtbus service comes standard with three anti-virus engines and best of breed Microsoft Exchange message scanning technology - ensuring you are protected from viruses and worms sent within email through the Thoughtbus infrastructure and through Internet e-mail.

Now Available! Ultimate Anti-Spam Protector

In addition to the virus and anti-spam control that comes standard with your Thoughtbus service, Ultimate Anti-Spam Protector is now available (for as little as $1.00/user/month). Ultimate Anti-Spam Protector protects Thoughtbus mailboxes, contacts, and Public Folders that are enabled with the service. We recommend this service for mailboxes and organizations that are being aggressively targeted by spammers.

Using Commtouch Anti-Spam Enterprise Solution 4.1, the industry's most reliable spam protection platform, our Ultimate Anti-Spam Protector offers an unbeatable combination: near-perfect spam detection and minimal false positives.

• Best detection/accuracy performance: 97% spam detection coupled with the industry's lowest false positive levels
• Real-Time Detection: immediate protection from new spam outbreaks
• Includes a robust Administration Console where you can enable users and manage the Site Quarantine used for organization-wide quarantine of spam, and Site Rules to apply to everyone in your organization
• The User Policy Manager is available to Thoughtbus end-users and administrators to define ‘approved' and ‘blocked' sender email addresses and domains, and to manage their User Quarantines
• Excellent detection of today's sophisticated image-based spam
• Integrated service solution provides login with your standard Thoughtbus user account

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Thoughtbus Standard Anti-Virus, Anti-Spam and Worm Protection

The Thoughtbus service comes standard with the most robust standard anti-virus, anti-spam, and worm protection available by a hosted Exchange provider. The Thoughtbus anti-virus and anti-spam service includes:

Virus/Worm Contol

• Three Virus-Blocking Engines for comprehensive protection and better security
  
• Email Content and Attachment Checking to quarantine dangerous emails:
  
  • High performance Microsoft Office file and attachment checking.
  • Protection from objects in files. Many content security solutions do not scan for objects embedded in for example a Word file. This way, a user could send an executable simply by embedding it in the file.
  • Ability to decompress up to 76 compression formats. (Many malicious emails might be compressed in relatively unknown formats. If your content security or anti-virus solution can not handle the format, you run the risk of the mail going straight through your content security solution.)
    
• Exploit Shield for email intrusion detection and defense

Spam Control
Thoughtbus understands that the increasing Spam problem we all face takes up valuable time and causes tremendous frustration. Without proper Spam guards, your inbox will continue to fill up with unwanted, and often unsavory, messages.

Avoid Spam Thoughtbus Ultimate Anti-Spam Protector provides added protection from annoying, and potentially dangerous, spam

To help eliminate spam from your inbox, Thoughtbus.com employs sophisticated server-based anti-spam technologies. For example, we subscribe to multiple high-quality DNS Block Lists (DBL's) and Spam URL Block Lists (SURBL's) - to provide spam protection against known spam senders, unsecured Internet SMTP servers, and known spam URL's. This is included FREE with the Thoughtbus.com service and blocks a large portion of incoming spam.

In addition to our server-based anti-spam features, Outlook 2003 includes a sophisticated Junk E-mail Filter not found in previous versions. As part of the Outlook 2003 spam protection, Microsoft has created a filtering mechanism based on some 100,000 variables. This filter is part of Outlook and used to score each incoming message for its spam potential. Once the message crosses a defined threshold, the message is moved to the 'Junk E-mail' folder in your Thoughtbus mailbox.