Kris Deugau wrote:
Rob Kudyba wrote:
Well there is a company that sprouted from Vipul's Razor that uses
the concept of collaborative filtering and adaptive learning from
over a million trusted users, in a type of-- if you will--"[EMAIL PROTECTED]
net"--(ah hem) and I don't believe this 'net is incorporated into SA?
That would be Cloudmark - which was co-founded by the guy that wrote Vipul's Razor in the first place. <g> (See the bottom two paragraphs on http://www.cloudmark.com/company/.)
Their business model is (IIRC) based on selling licences for an Outlook
plugin (and other similar largely Windows-only bits) that connect to the
Razor servers.
That is only a part of their model now and their desktop product--now called SafetyBar--connects to their own proprietary "spam net"...sorry for the plug but you can check out their mail server based products at http://raeinternet.com/cloud/ which includes Cloudmark Authority, which our MPP product now integrates, in addition to working w/ SA. I'm not trying to disparage SA by any means as our company and customers use it but I was simply responding to the comments that other commercial efforts are either using SA or have equivalent functionality to SA...
FWIW, here's a customer "testimonial" that just came in, which is slightly OT as it relates to performance more than functionality and is a bit self-serving:
"I switched from MPP/SpamAssassin to MPP/Cloudmark last night. We have quarantined about 35k messages so far, and I am having a hard time finding a false positive among them. We are still searching. I got one false negative since 2am this morning.
But here is the important info as far we are concerned:
2x2 CGPro cluster on Debian Sarge (each frontend is a 2x Xeon w/ 4GB RAM) ~75k mailboxes
MPP/Spamd/Clamd (daily figures) Average load avg: 3.53 (daily max about 10.00+) Average CPU: 60% system; 18% user (93% max system; 31% max user)
MPP/Cloudmark/Clamd
Average load avg: 0.33 (current max about 1.42 - our morning peak)
Average CPU: 2.70% system; 19.14% user (note: every hour we run log parsers, this causes a spike of up to 80%)
I have to say I am *very* impressed. I will report back if I encounter anything strange. The transition was incredibly easy as well. I have a couple of folks doing some localized spam detection. I am going to see if they are noticing any increase, decrease, or nothing with their detection."
Coridally,
Rob Admin for http://www.raeinternet.com/ & http://www.raeantivirus.com/
