The doctor is in, by Stan Beer - 22nd November 2005
(Credit: The Sydney Morning Herald)

As a young IT tech head who has made a living making house calls to fix sick computers and helping unskilled users configure home networks, Shaun McGuane dreamed of a better life.

Not that being a locum was all that bad, but being on call at all hours as a young father and a PC doctor can be wearing at times.

Mr McGuane's answer was to develop his own product and, as a PC doctor who has seen just about every virus, spyware and spam scam under the sun, what better product than an anti-spam system.

For the past 12 months Mr McGuane has been working on MailShield, which is more of a managed service than a software product. "Many anti-spam software products just succeed in filtering out emails that businesses need," he said.

"Our system learns every hour and is a fully managed service which you pay for by the month and is far cheaper than a software product."

Basically, the service involves handing over an individual email account to Mr McGuane's company, which then vets the emails and filters out the spam.

Interested parties can find out more by visiting mailshield.net.au

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