Customers of the Netscape Internet service will be offered a few new features today. Netscape Communications announced its Internet service will now block pop-ups, spam, and offer e-mail scanning for viruses. These new services won"t be free. Web Accelerator with Pop-Up Blocker will go for $5 a month, and e-mail virus scanning will go for $1 a month.
Netscape Communications on Monday announced products designed to help customers of its Internet service block pop-ups and spam, as well as scan e-mail for viruses.
Additionally, the technology allows customers to surf the Internet at speeds of up to five times faster than they could over a standard dial-up connection, according to Netscape, which is a division of Time Warner"s America Online unit. The product, called Web Accelerator with Pop-Up Blocker, is an add-on that can be used with the basic Netscape dial-up service.
The service"s pop-up-blocking technology is designed to stop most of the "annoying and time-consuming pop-ups and pop-unders that interrupt normal Web surfing," the company said. Similarly, with the company"s spam-blocking tool, customers can block e-mails based on specific words, Netscape said. Subscribers can also block e-mails that contain clickable URLs. Additionally, a new e-mail virus scanner is designed to detect known viruses and fix or help block infected attachments, the company said. This scanner will be updated hourly, according to Netscape.