Quatral Solutions Inc

The bombardment of unwanted emails and spam in our email inboxes have become an everyday part of employees lives.

According to the french organization called CEFRIO (Centre francophone d’informatisation des organisations), the losses are about 1 000 $ per year per employee whom have access to emails in a business in quebec.

Whether it's for a university diploma in one week, an enlargement of a certain part of our body, miracle pills at crazy prices or simply an incomprehensible message, these messages are agressive in different degrees.

The cause of the problem

The most frustrating thing, is not knowing how these spammers obtained our email address ! There is multiple reasons; we will enumerate a few principal ones :

As you can see, it is almost impossible to prevent online marketing companies to obtain your email address. The only way would be to not write anyone at all !

The consequences of un solicitated emails

Many consequences result from receiving these type of emails. Some are purely emotional but others can put in peril the security of the business and affect customer service. Here is a listing of some consequences :

Spam is more and more intelligent even calling you by name using your domain name or the name of your contacts to get you to open the message.

Proposed solutions

Alot of solutions are proposed on todays market but few really can manage the situation. The filtering by list of senders or keywords are not meeting up to the intelligence of these « spams ». The solutions that claim to be the most complete are using artificial intelligence using the Bayesian probability.

The solution is also influenced by the client software you are using (Webmail, Outlook Express, Microsoft Outlook, Thunderbird, etc.).

Conclusion

To close your eyes on the problem is not a very wise decision for a business. It is best to invest in a solution that helps your employees to work better and in turn improves the companies quality of service. This way you will ensure the security and stability of your network installation.

You can contact us to get help about spam and we will look for different options that would best suit or fit your situation.

This phenonomen us not letting up. According to the CEFRIO, if this this tendancy maintains, the volume of spam with rise by 20 to 30 % each year, and maybe even much more.