MailFrontier provides multi-layer defense against viruses. This approach protects users from known viruses as well as new, unique outbreaks. This real-time protection uses three types of anti-virus analysis.
Three Types of Anti-Virus Analysis
This comprehensive approach ensures that your email remains
secure before, during, and after a virus outbreak.
MailFrontier Time Zero Virus Technology™
Most anti-virus products rely primarily on signatures to stop viruses. These
signatures are based on known viruses. Relying solely on this method
leaves a dangerous window between the time a virus first appears and the time
a signature is developed and deployed. At the moment the outbreak occurs - “Time
Zero” - a virus has the opportunity to do significant damage to your
computer system. Every passing minute until a signature arrives is enough time
for a virus to multiply exponentially and compromise another portion of your
network.
MailFrontier’s breakthrough Time Zero Virus Technology provides
predictive virus defense complemented with responsive techniques to stop viruses
as soon as they emerge. These techniques are enhanced by MailFrontier’s
decisive dual-engine signature technology of partners McAfee and Kaspersky. With
MailFrontier Time Zero Virus Technology, emails potentially containing new
viruses are identified and safely quarantined, while known viruses are blocked
by virus signatures.
- Predictive - New email viruses on the Internet
are stopped using MailFrontier’s predictive techniques
which perform statistical email and attachment analysis, detect
deceptive files, and check for MIME exploits. This approach
can identify seemingly innocent files that may be harboring
malicious code.
- Responsive - MailFrontier rapidly responds to virus outbreaks by focusing on their delivery vehicle - suspicious emails. MailFrontier applies its Self Monitoring Active Response Team (SMART) Network, an over-one-million-user, real-time network that automatically engages in detecting and thwarting new threats. Emails identified by MailFrontier SMART Network that contain dangerous attachments are immediately and safely quarantined.
Virus Signatures
MailFrontier’s multi-layer defense against viruses
adds decisive protection through virus signatures.
- Decisive - MailFrontier’s innovative Time Zero Virus Technology is complemented with leading anti-virus engines from partners McAfee and Kaspersky. These anti-virus engines have a comprehensive set of signatures to prevent previously identified viruses from causing damage to computer systems. MailFrontier customers can select protection from one or both of these partners. Having two leading anti-virus signature engines ensures that customers will receive signatures quickly, safely blocking viruses.
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Kaspersky is a technology leader and acknowledged expert in the development of anti-virus signatures. In tests conducted on 24 leading anti-virus vendors, Kaspersky was the fastest to create and deploy signatures. |
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McAfee is the industry leader in dependable anti-virus signatures, protecting 100 million end users. McAfee Anti-Virus Emergency Response Team (AVERT) researches and provides rapid responses to viruses. |
Inbound and Outbound Protection
MailFrontier applies its breakthrough anti-virus techniques to both inbound and outbound emails to ensure that dangerous attachments are not being sent from within the company. MailFrontier Anti-Virus keeps the network safe and enables the enterprise to maintain a reputation of safe outbound email.
This anti-virus protection is offered as part of the MailFrontier Power Protection module.