The new anti-spam and anti-virus service is an optional extra for BigPond customers -- the telco billing them a "fee of just $2.50 per mailbox per month for each of the spam filtering and anti-virus filters".
In a statement released yesterday, BigPond's managing director, Justin Milne, said the new service has been introduced in response to the growing volume of spam and mass mailing worms, such as SoBig.F. "As the Internet evolves, worms and viruses can be highly disruptive to individual users and can cost businesses millions of dollars. Similarly, spam is on the rise with the cost of the scourge borne by Telstra and its customers," he said.
The service is designed to be "set and forget".
In addition to the anti-spam and anti-virus software, Telstra say they will be rolling out a optional personal firewall service to BigPond customers later this month.
Industry sources have indicated it will be based on Network Associates' recently launched subscription based software suite.
I have signed up for your spam eradication system at the monthly rate, however, the volume of spam has increased not decreased or stopped.....my question is "Is this as good as it gets?""
If so it would appear to me too be useless....if I could drop my old e-mail address of davidcheek.bigpond.com it would virtually cease to exist as all the spam is coming in under that address not my ADSL address....can this be done??
Your reply is awaited.....David Cheek