TurnTide Inc. was an anti-
spam
Spam most often refers to:
* Spam (food), a consumer brand product of canned processed pork of the Hormel Foods Corporation
* Spamming, unsolicited or undesired electronic messages
** Email spam, unsolicited, undesired, or illegal email messages
...
technology company founded in 2004 and based in
Conshohocken, Pennsylvania
Conshohocken ( ; ) is a Borough (Pennsylvania), borough on the Schuylkill River in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania in suburban Philadelphia. Historically a large mill town and industrial and manufacturing center, after the decline of industry in ...
. The firm was created as a spin-off corporation from privacy and anti-spam technology firm
ePrivacy Group to bring to market the world's first anti-spam
router. The technology, linking anti-spam detection algorithms with network-level flow controls, was originally marketed by ePrivacy Group under the name "SpamSquelcher".
TurnTide was acquired by
Symantec Symantec may refer to:
* Gen Digital, an American consumer software company formerly known as Symantec
* Symantec Security, a brand of enterprise security software purchased by Broadcom
Broadcom Inc. is an American multinational corporation, ...
six months after its creation for
US$28 million. In 2006, the TurnTide technology was described as "magic" by John Katsaros at the Internet Research Group.
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TurnTide on Primetime- A news segment about TurnTide
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Defunct companies based in Pennsylvania
Gen Digital acquisitions