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Compare Email Defense with the Basic Spam and Virus Filtering Service

Compare Pricing and Licensing

	Basic Service	Email Defense
Available to users of LuxSci's email services?	Yes	Yes
Available to clients who have non-LuxSci email services?	No	Yes
Retail license price	$0.50/user/mo	$1.35/user/mo
Reduced prices for bulk purchases?	Yes	Yes
Can add licenses on a per-user basis?	Yes	No
Necessary to buy licenses for all users in a domain?	No	Yes

Compare Virus Filtering

	Basic Service	Email Defense
Virus filter/filters used	Clam AntiVirus	Sophos AntiVirus, and McAfee AntiVirus, and Authentium AntiVirus Rules
Frequency filters updated	Hourly	Every 5 minutes
Can delete Viruses?	Yes	Yes
Can save Viruses to an email Folder?	Yes	No
Can disable Virus scanning?	Yes	No
Can Quarantine Viruses in a separate safe location?	No	Yes
Can clean messages of viruses prior to delivery?	No	Yes
Can strip messages of viruses prior to delivery?	No	Yes
Can bounce messages containing viruses?	No	Yes
Configuration required	Per-user	Per-domain

Compare Spam Filtering

The Spam filtering options in the Email Defense service are quite versatile. The following table is a simplified outline of the important features.

	Basic Service	Email Defense
Spam filtering technologies used:	SpamAssassin	Multi-layered Solution Including: Cloudmark software Statistical Filtering Industry Heuristics Proprietary Heuristics URL Filtering Reputation-based URL Filtering
Per-user white and black lists:	Yes	Yes
Global domain-wide white and black lists:	No	Yes
Exempt recipients from Spam Filtering:	Yes	Yes
Can disable Spam Filter?	Yes	Yes
Can tag SPAM emails with "[SPAM]" subject tags?	Yes	Yes
Can save SPAM messages to a separate email folder?	Yes	No
Can quarantine SPAM messages to a separate place you can access 24/7?	No	Yes
Disk space used by saved (quarantined) Spam is free?	No	Yes
Can bounce Spam messages?	No	Yes
Can receive a daily email reporting on all quarantined messages so you can easily review them and release possible legitimate email?	Yes	Yes
Configuration required	Per-user	Per-domain

Compare Attachment and Content Filtering

	Basic Service	Email Defense
Can block attachments based on attachment file type and size?	No*	Yes
Allows you to define custom attachment filtering rules?	No*	Yes
Allows you to bounce messages with attachments you do not want?	No	Yes
Allows you strip attachments you do not want from messages?	No	Yes
Allows you quarantine messages with attachments that you do not want so that an administrator can review them?	No	Yes
Allows you to automatically forward messages with certain types of attachments to a custom distribution list of email addresses.	No*	Yes
Allows you to specify rules that differentiate between normal ZIP files and encrypted ZIP files.	No	Yes
Can examine attachments inside unencrypted ZIP files for policy violations?	No	Yes
Allows you to define custom groups of keywords for use in content filtering?	No*	Yes
Allows you to quarantine messages which have words in specified custom keyword groups?	No	Yes
Allows you to tag the subject line of messages which have words in specified custom keyword groups?	No	Yes
Allows you to bounce messages which have words in specified custom keyword groups?	No*	Yes
Allows you to white list messages which have words in specified custom keyword groups?	No*	Yes
Allows you to automatically forward messages with certain keywords to a custom distribution list of email addresses?	No*	Yes
Can automatically remove malicious HTML tags (iframe, frame, layer, span, meta style) from messages?	No	Yes
Can automatically disable JavaScript/Java/ActiveX objects, HTML comments, and invalid HTML attributes in email messages?	No	Yes
Can automatically remove ALL HTML from email messages?	No	Yes
Can block Spam "beacons" and web bugs in messages?	No	Yes
Can replace all image links with transparent images?	No	Yes
Can optionally replace all links with special links that will give a) users a warning about following links in email messages, b) track links clicked on by your users in their email, or c) display a warning and deny them the ability to go to the web site? You can exclude URLs of your choice from this click protection.	No	Yes
Can optionally send customizable notification email messages to the sender and/or recipient of a message containing a virus, a disallowed attachment, or a keyword in one of your keyword groups?	No*	Yes
Configuration required	Per-user	Per-domain

*This feature is not directly part of the basic Spam and Virus filtering package, but you can approximate it to varying degrees using LuxSci's separate custom Email Filter creation tool that is available to all LuxSci email service users.

Compare Email Attack Protection

	Basic Service	Email Defense
Uses a distributed, redundant email filtering server architecture to offload filtering from your email servers and to ensure that your email gets filtered and delivered even in the case of server failure?	Yes	Yes
Instantly block Denial of Service and other SMTP-based attacks, including dictionary attacks, email bombs, and email flooding?	No	Yes
Hides your actual inbound email servers from the Internet?	No	Yes
Employs real-time monitoring and analysis of incoming network traffic?	No	Yes

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