News Release

New free service for parents and teachers delivers 100% protection for kids against harmful email spam

- spamjab blocks all pornography, drugs advertising and other damaging messages -

Parents and teachers can now ensure kids and pupils in their care are completely safe from harmful and unwanted emails by using a single, free* anti-spam service.

spamjab - www.spamjab.com - has been designed in response to the growing number of potentially damaging emails that are reaching children's' inboxes. By using the easy-to-install managed service - which is monitored 24/7 by anti-spam experts - parents and teachers can ensure that only those emails that have been requested reach their children and those in their care. Material that contains pornography, advertises drugs sales or any other form of unwanted email is locked out for good.

spamjab, which was developed by Cambridge-educated email experts, is based on proprietary technology that addresses the current flaws in existing anti-spam software. This allows spamjab to achieve the highest ever levels of email filtration.

Traditional anti-spam technologies work in one of two ways. Either they only let through emails from people the user has contacted in the past. This means some 'good' ones get blocked and the user has to go through a separate spam folder to retrieve them. Alternatively they have a list of recognised spam. However this second method cannot guarantee that all emails received are wanted. spamjab has solved both these issues to achieve its 100 per cent effectiveness. In addition, parents and teachers can protect their charges within ten minutes of accessing www.spamjab.com, rather than attempting the laborious task of loading a disc-based software package onto each PC that needs protecting.

"At present, protecting children using the internet focuses on stopping kids from accessing websites, rather than on the more concerning issue of what's being pushed into their email inboxes," said Farrukh Khan, managing director of spamjab and the service's creator. "I realised there was a real need for a comprehensive answer to the problem of unwanted and distasteful email when I was contacted by my sister. She was concerned that my 9 year old niece had inadvertently opened a pornographic email that had been sent by spammers to her personal account. Given that there are millions of children online in the UK, it became clear that this is a serious problem."

"While there are a number of anti-spam solutions on the market today, none have been designed, developed, and tested on parents and children. As an email marketing and computer expert, I know how spam and spammers work and have used that experience to develop a service that addresses this problem once and for all. Now, parents can rest assured that their children are safe from harm," he added.

For more information, please visit www.spamjab.com

*Free for one year for the first 1,000 subscribers
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