In the perpetual battle against spam, Avinti has thrown its hat into the game with its email gateway plugin. Reading through the article presented a very generic description of the tool:

Called NEWT, for Neutralize E-mail-Web Threats, the software is designed to block URLs and IP addresses embedded in inbound spam messages that link to known malware sites, according to company officials. How does a tool like this stack up to the likes of SpamAssassin or Spamhaus's DROP list? Does Avinti's database of known malware links scale to today's amount of incoming spam?

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