Compare all 3 Email Security Platforms

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Click here for a comparison table of vqME and vqNow.
Click here for a more technical discussion of differences.

The advanced email security technology that won PC Magazine Editors' Choice and also "The Best Stuff" is now available on 3 separate platforms. You can compare pricing based on your own needs with this online wizard.

Each platform provides award winning protection from spam, viruses and identity scams. Each one looks the same from the user perspective. This diagram illustrates the way in which spam and viruses are detected and eliminated. But each platform is geared to a different number of users:

vqME -- Protect up to 5 email addresses. Ideal for an individual or family
vqNow -- Virtual hosted service protects from 5 to 900 addresses
vqSA -- Our security appliance protects from 250 to 30,000 addresses

vqME is our personal email security product. Mail is redirected from up to 5 individual addresses (for example, from you ISP or hosted domain). It lands in a mailbox on our server where it is cleaned of spam, viruses and phishing scams. You retrieve mail with your existing email program (Outlook, Eudora, Thunderbird, Netscape, Incredimail, etc) or use our full-featured webmail interface from any PC.

You may access your mail from as many PC or PDAs as you like and each computer can access any of your protected addresses - even if use use several ISPs or email services. No software is required, but a free tray utility for Windows users adds these nifty features.

vqME costs $39.95 per year and significantly less with a 2 year subscription.
vqNow is preferred by people who own their own domains and small offices (it becomes very cost effective at around at 10 addresses and the breakaway price leader at 50 or more addresses. There's no up front investment, no equipment and no maintenance. It's even attractive to some enterprise users with over a thousand addresses.

With vqNow, mail is routed in the opposite direction as our personal product (in this case, from us to you). Your MX record directs incoming mail to our server first. Mail is cleaned and delivered instantly to your existing mailboxes at your ISP, hosted domain - or even your own mail server. If you wish, you may exclude addresses from the process. Mail sent to those addresses are mirrored back to your existing mailbox without the security process. [Details]

As with our personal antispam service, vqNow users get the nifty tray utility. Check it out!

vqNow architecture is similar to the Postini solution. Just as with that service, our security server is the focus of your MX record and it forwards clean mail back along a private channel. But Vanquish has the awards, the service, the reputation - and now - a much, much lower cost!

vqNow costs $15 or less per user per year plus a setup fee based on the number of domains that you will protect (cost is slightly higher per address for very small offices but considerably lower with a 2 year commitment). A mini-workgroup account for up to 5 users was recently introduced and is a great way to grow your security needs.
vqSA is our enterprise server appliance. It comes in any form: rack mount, tower or desktop. You simply drop it in stream and watch the spammers and hackers run away. Bulletproof protection for a fraction of the other guys!

vqSA starts under $1500