MailRoute Inc. is an email security provider applying advanced methods for ‘washing’ email for viruses

Computer virus

A computer virus is a computer program that can replicate itself and spread from one computer to another. The term "virus" is also commonly but erroneously used to refer to other types of malware, including but not limited to adware and spyware programs that do not have the reproductive ability...

 and spam.

E-mail spam

Email spam, also known as junk email or unsolicited bulk email , is a subset of spam that involves nearly identical messages sent to numerous recipients by email. Definitions of spam usually include the aspects that email is unsolicited and sent in bulk. One subset of UBE is UCE...

 The service works by taking over the role as a middleman in the DNS MX record

MX record

A mail exchanger record is a type of resource record in the Domain Name System that specifies a mail server responsible for accepting email messages on behalf of a recipient's domain, and a preference value used to prioritize mail delivery if multiple mail servers are available...

 between the open Internet

Internet

The Internet is a global system of interconnected computer networks that use the standard Internet protocol suite to serve billions of users worldwide...

 and the email server. The service also protects against email server outages by temporarily hosting

Hosting

Hosting can mean:* To act as the organizer or master of ceremonies for an event.* Self-hosting - software distribution which provides all necessary source code to enable itself to be re-compiled from scratch* Internet hosting service, including:...

 incoming emails until the email server is ready to receive messages again.

Founded in 2003 by Thomas A. Johnson, MailRoute is a privately held company headquartered in Manhattan Beach, CA. Thomas A. Johnson was also the original founder and CEO of FrontBridge

FrontBridge

thumb|right|FrontBridge administrative dashboard, showing spam and malicious email filtering rates Microsoft Exchange Hosted Services, also known as FrontBridge, is an email filtering system owned by Microsoft...

, the email filtering company that was acquired by Microsoft

Microsoft

Microsoft Corporation is an American public multinational corporation headquartered in Redmond, Washington, USA that develops, manufactures, licenses, and supports a wide range of products and services predominantly related to computing through its various product divisions...

 in 2005.

The service has gotten some attention in 2010 because of it’s sponsorship of TWiT.

TWiT.tv (network)

The TWiT Netcast Network, which is the operating trade name of TWiT LLC, is a podcast network run by technology broadcaster and author Leo Laporte. The network began operation in April 2005 with the launch of This Week in Tech. Security Now was the second podcast on the network, debuting in...