Spam & Virus Email Filtering
Email has undoubtedly become a key tool for communications among companies worldwide. However, with frequent virus attacks and the alarming rate that spam has been filling up inboxes; email is quickly becoming a less efficient means of communicating. In fact, the Radicati Group, a market research firm in Palo Alto, California, predicts that by 2007, there will be 50 billion spam messages each day, costing companies almost $200 billion per year. This is simply astounding and unacceptable. It's time to take control of spam. Helping Hand Barracuda Spam Firewall is an integrated hardware and software solution that has the power of an enterprise class solution, and the ease-of-use and affordability that businesses of all sizes demand.
Current customers can connect to our Barracuda Spam Filter by logging in and viewing the messages that our spam filter has deemed unfit to deliver to your mailbox. Encourge the spam filter by telling it that it was successful in determining spam correctly, or tell it to deliver the mail that it incorrectly marked as spam.
Powerful, Enterprise-Class Solution
Helping Hand Barracuda Spam Firewall is a powerful, enterprise-class solution, supporting 30,000 active email users and handling 20 million messages each day. Its architecture leverages open source virus and spam solutions, in conjunction with ten defense layers:
- Denial of Service and
- User-Specified Rules
- Security Protection
- Spam Fingerprint Check
- IP Block List
- Intent Analysis
- Rate Control
- Bayesian Analysis
- Virus Check with
- Rule-Based Scoring
- Archive Decompression
- Helping Hand Virus Check
This architecture optimizes the processing of each email, which yields the performance required to process millions of messages per day. Unlike software solutions, the Helping Hand Barracuda Spam Firewall reduces the load placed on the email server by off-loading both spam and virus filtering.
Easy to Use and Maintain
With no software to install and no modifications required to existing email systems, installation is extremely easy, typically taking only five minutes. Once installed, the system administrator uses an intuitive web interface for monitoring and maintenance. The Helping Hand Barracuda Spam Firewall requires minimal maintenance because it's innovative design incorporates reliability into every aspect of the product. Energize updates are automatically retrieved by the Helping Hand Barracuda Spam Firewall, enabling maximum spam and virus protection while eliminating administrative overhead. These updates are provided by Barracuda Central, an advanced technology operations center where engineers continuously monitor the Internet for trends in spam and virus attacks.
Affordable
The Helping Hand Barracuda Spam Firewall is affordable for businesses of all sizes-- small or large. It has no per user license fees, making it the most affordable enterprise-class spam and virus protection solution available.

