Email is THE killer internet application, can your business survive without it? Is it so much a part of your daily business process that you forget just how crucial it is?

If you are interested in EXACTLY how to protect this key application in your business then please read on.

In just a few short years the use of email has grown at an astonishing rate. You may have noticed that this has also led to a tidal wave of SPAM and email viruses.

Do you talk to people all the time who bemoan the number of spam emails they have to sort form their email every day? As a country the time we all waste dealing with spam must be phenomenal!

The thing is, YOU don't need to do it yourself! Anti-SPAM systems are readily available that recognise incoming email for what it is; ordinary clean email is passed directly to you, SPAM email or virus infected email is sorted automatically for you. It will save your company HOURS of time every week.

That's the greatest benefit of an anti-spam system, it hands back wasted time to your business and makes your business more productive and consequently more successful.

The size of the problem is very evident on the Internet, hundreds of people search Google every day for a free spam blocker or free spam filter. Of course it's one thing to use a free spam removal tool at home but it's really NOT the best approach if you rely on email to run your business.

The simplest approach is to install a desktop tool that performs the function of anti-spam. Outlook Express has a number of such tools readily available over the Internet, each with varying levels of functionality. Also in the world of the desktop spam blocker Outlook is well served, again software is freely available but ability to effectively filter spam varies. There are two overriding negative features of these desktops tools, firstly the spam/virus email has to be delivered to your desktop before it gets dealt with, and secondly the bad mail is usually dumped in a quarantine folder which means it is taking up space in your email database!

We don't recommend any desktop tools because we believe that they fail to deal with the problem early enough and they still block up your mail database with rubbish. We only recommend solutions that bounce spam mail away from your mail servers and desktop computers, there are three solutions that we recommend.

Anti-Spam Server Software
With these solutions you install anti-spam server software either directly onto your mail server (we avoid doing it this way if we can) or you install it onto a dedicated server (much better!). In the separate server scenario the server's function is simply to filter email and pass on the resulting clean mail to your mail server, this solution kills spam long before it gets to your desktop computers and prevents spam email from choking your mail server.

Email Security Appliance
This solution is similar in many ways to the anti-spam server software running on dedicated machine, it's a dedicated piece of hardware running an email security software application. It's much simpler to maintain and license of course, you just buy the whole device, set it up and off you go, no software to install!!

Online Email Security Service
Our third and final favored method of eliminating spam and email viruses is to use an externally hosted solution. With this type of solution your incoming email is first diverted to your email security host, it's thoroughly cleaned and then sent back to you. This solution is quick and easy and there's no hardware for you to maintain and no software to be installed.

X10D can provide cost-effective proven solutions in each of these categories, if you want to know more about protecting your business from the threats posed by your email system then press the submit enquiry button NOW and ask our advice.