Berlin, Germany - (Website Hosting Directory) - November 2, 2006 - Web hosting company, STRATO, has unveiled a solution to combat spam, phishing and email viruses, ServerSide Security. The new anti-spam, anti-virus and anti-phishing solution, forms part of all new and existing web hosting packages, at no extra cost.

After conducting research into their own customer base, STRATO discovered that up to 80% of all emails reaching their users consisted of a combination of spam, phishing emails or email viruses. With the problem so close to home, STRATO understood the need to prioritise email security for all its customers. As a result, STRATO formed a partnership with the Institute of Machine Learning at the Humboldt University in Berlin, and since 2005 has been developing a solution that will successfully combat the increasing security risks associated with damaging emails.

The collaboration has resulted in ServerSide Security, with the following features: * Evaluating email messages not just by words, but also by word combinations * Evaluation of information contained in the email header * Classification and detection of phishing emails * Recognition of email viruses on the basis of specific dispersion patterns * The high level of filtration guarantees damaging emails are instantly removed before reaching a users spam folder * Consideration and analysis of social graphs - whereby a calculation is made concerning how many times one person communicates with a set of others * A removal of false positives in the spam folder which could lead to a phasing out of the spam folder as it becomes redundant

Damian Schmidt, CEO of STRATO commented, ''Spammers and phishers are constantly attempting to fool email security filter systems with new methods of conning the customer. We make sure we work with the experts to keep one step ahead of them, through the constant updating of our email security offering and by pre-empting future email security attacks. By providing ServerSide Security free as part of our web hosting packages we enable our small to medium customers receive the same level of security protection as that of an enterprise.''

To learn more, please visit: www.strato-hosting.co.uk.