Roaring Penguin Software Inc. Releases CanIt 2.0 Anti-Spam Solution

Powerful solution adapts to users' preferences, provides most complete, flexible and effective spam control for enterprises, campuses and ISPs.

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Tuesday, November 25, 2003; 12:00 AM

November 25, 2003 — Ottawa, Canada — CanIt, the industry's most flexible and effective anti-spam solution, has been made more powerful with a major new release. Roaring Penguin Software today announced availability of CanIt 2.0, which provides enterprises, campuses and ISPs with additional features, functions and options for spam and virus filtering.

CanIt 2.0 further empowers IT administrators by incorporating statistical spam-detection techniques (popularly known as Bayesian filtering), greater spam detection sophistication, a web-based interface that can match the look and feel of an enterprise's website, and numerous new features that make administration of the solution even simpler.

"By learning what is or isn't spam, CanIt 2.0 is sophisticated enough to stay abreast of new spamming techniques," said David Skoll, President of Roaring Penguin Software, Inc. "In addition, Bayesian analysis, a probability-based technique, makes it more difficult for spammers to reach users. With CanIt-PRO, individual end-users adjust spam protection to suit their particular preferences while the Bayesian filters learns each individual's unique definition of spam."

In addition to statistical filtering, the new release includes numerous administrative enhancements. "Administrators will find that CanIt is even more customizable than before," added Skoll. "One can now edit or add spam rules in a spreadsheet and import these back into CanIt, saving time and effort. This is helpful for administrators who create custom rules or want to transfer their rules to others."

E-mail administrators will also benefit from enhanced spam detection features, will be able to configure CanIt to scan for and reject viruses and Windows executable files even if the database server goes down, and can choose to set permissions on individual mail stream settings.

Based on the acclaimed MIMEDefang e-mail inspection and manipulation software, also developed and maintained by Roaring Penguin, CanIt 2.0 offers the industry's most complete and flexible anti-spam and anti-virus solution. It can be deployed in any enterprise e-mail environment, including on all Linux and UNIX servers. As a stand-alone gateway appliance, it can protect e-mail environments running non-UNIX servers, such as Microsoft Exchange, Lotus Notes and Novell Groupwise.

CanIt is available in standard and professional versions as either a software download or on a plug-and-play appliance. CanIt-PRO is ideal for very large enterprises, ISPs, and campus environments, where control and management of the system needs to be distributed to individual departments or users. A trial version of CanIt can be obtained at www.canit.ca/evaluation.php.

About Roaring Penguin
Founded in 1999, Roaring Penguin Software Inc. specializes in providing intelligent computing infrastructure for enterprises. Since 2000, the company has focused on enterprise e-mail filtering, spam fighting and related product lines. Today, Roaring Penguin develops, deploys and supports a range of acclaimed mail-filtering and networking products. For more information visit www.roaringpenguin.com. A trial version of CanIt can be obtained at www.canit.ca/evaluation.php.