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Barracuda Networks, Inc. is a privately held company providing firewall products to block e-mail spam, viruses, spyware and instant messaging software.

Barracuda Networks was established in 2002 and is now based in Mountain View, California (after having originally operated from Cupertino, California for its first three years). The power and reliability you need to reclaim and maintain control of your email, network and Spyware Prevention and Removal The Barracuda Web Filter, previously known as the Barracuda Spyware.

The company's first offering and premier product is the anti-spam appliance named Barracuda Spam Firewall - a dedicated firewall computer running a hardened Linux-based system. Released to the market in October of 2003, it has since won several awards from trade publications. The product accepts SMTP traffic and analyzes the source and content of each inbound e-mail message, then makes a decision to allow, tag, quarantine, or block. Allowed and tagged traffic is passed on to the next SMTP system in the path, generally an organization's MTA. Several models are available to support different levels of traffic and numbers of domains. The Barracuda Spam Firewall provide Spam Filtering, Exchange Spam Filter
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In April of 2005 the Barracuda Spyware Firewall was released to the market, and in February of 2006 the Barracuda IM Firewall was released in the United States (the European release is scheduled for March).

Controversy

Rhyolite Software, LLC maintains a spammer blacklist that includes Address. com, a company co-founded by Barracuda Networks founding member Michael Perone. This apparent conflict of interest has led some to question the sincerity of Barracuda's spam-fighting intentions, considering that one of its key executives is himself an alleged spammer. of installations, also.