STRATO, a web hosting company, today announced the launch of ServerSide Security, an anti-spam, anti-virus and anti-phishing solution.

According to STRATO, it discovered that 80% of all emails reaching their users consisted of a combination of spam, phishing emails or email viruses. As a result, STRATO formed a partnership with the Institute of Machine Learning at the Humboldt University in Berlin, to combat the increasing security risks associated with damaging emails.

Damian Schmidt, CEO of STRATO, said: "Spammers and phishers are constantly attempting to fool email security filter systems with new methods of conning the customer. We make sure we work with the experts to keep one step ahead of them, through the constant updating of our email security offering and by pre-empting future email security attacks. By providing ServerSide Security free as part of our web hosting packages we enable our small to medium customers receive the same level of security protection as that of an enterprise."