MonsterMail Takes On AOL, MSN, and Yahoo! in Battle to Protect Children, Parents, and Others From `Spam,` Pornography, and Viruses

Thursday, October 18, 2001 9:00 AM
Computers/Electronics
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BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE via COLLEGIATE PRESSWIRE)--Oct 18, 2001--MonsterMail, Inc. (www.monstermail.com) launches the world`s first e-mail filtering and forwarding service today - designed to protect you and your children from junk e-mail (''spam'') and viruses - while never losing contact when you change jobs, move, or switch ISPs. Best of all, its not another e-mail account you have to check!

''Enter almost any chat room and your screen name or e-mail address will be harvested within minutes - with pornography flowing freely into your e-mail in-box. Imagine what kids that spend hours in these chat rooms receive in their in-box on a daily basis - often through no fault of their own,'' says MonsterMail CEO, Mike Hren.

MonsterMail enables you to literally turn your e-mail in-box ''upside down'' by only forwarding e-mail on your approved contact list - maintained on the MonsterMail servers. Unlike Hotmail, MonsterMail is not another in-box to check. Its a ''monster'' e-mail filter - riding above all the ''spammers'' trying to reach you, all the friends, family and contacts you want to hear from, and all your existing e-mail accounts.

Jan Gill, a working mother of two, says, ''The only way I could protect myself or my kids on e-mail was to get free accounts from Hotmail or Yahoo! - and then let the accounts expire. Unfortunately, this is like throwing out the baby with the bath water. I would lose touch with the stuff I did want - and who has time to check extra e-mail accounts from work?''

''The average person has 2 or 3 e-mail accounts - they don`t need another one,'' says business executive Jim Zahka. ''What they need is ONE filtering and forwarding address to give to everyone - stopping the bad guys before they even enter your house, allowing the good guys to reach you even when your underlying e-mail addresses change, and easily controlling both from any existing e-mail account or web browser.''

With no hardware or software to install or download, a 30-day free trial, and a $5 referral credit when friends and family sign-up, MonsterMail (www.monstermail.com) is the best way to protect yourself and your kids on e-mail - in a crazy on-line world.