AOL says its members are reporting 5.5 million pieces of spam per day to AOL's anti-spam engineers, up from about 4 million per day reported less than two weeks ago. The company, part of the AOL Time Warner group, adds that it now stops an average of 28 spam e-mails from reaching each account on a daily basis.

This week, a new anti-spam product for businesses was released as freeware. Malta-based GFI launched its freeware version of GFI MailEssentials for Exchange/SMTP 8. The free version allows incoming e-mail to be checked against popular DNS blacklists (also known as real time blacklists) at server level, prior to distributing the mail to network users. It also enables administrators to set up their own blacklists and includes a patented automatic "whitelist" management tool.

For more information on GFI's product and to obtain the free download, see:

www.gfi.com/news/en/mes8rblfreeware.htm

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