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McAfee, Inc. Provides Increased Levels of Detection for Spam
McAfee, Inc., provider of intrusion prevention solutions, announced that McAfee(R) SpamKiller(R) for Mail Servers and McAfee SpamKiller appliances now deliver more granular levels of detection with monthly rules set engine updates (RENUs). With Monthly RENUs, McAfee SpamKiller can offer small to large businesses enhanced accuracy in recognizing spam, helping to eliminate the problem of unwanted email, reduce potential legal liability, reclaim network bandwidth and allow employees to work more efficiently. McAfee SpamKiller, which is part of the McAfee Secure Content Management solutions group, is designed to deliver secure content management technology at the edge of the network to help businesses optimize resources, increase productivity and reduce their exposure to threats.
McAfee SpamKiller delivers unmatched spam protection and performance with an out-of-box highly accurate scoring system to determine whether a particular email is spam. With the extensive set of rules that run behind McAfee SpamKiller, each email receives a positive or negative score to determine its overall spam rating, and once spam is detected, messages are either delivered to the end-users inbox, personal junk mail folder or a system-wide junk folder.
With monthly RENUs, McAfee can offer tangible improvements in detection, including new updates that offer:
* One hundred new spam rules from the SpamAssassin open source engine
* Rules that are in accordance with the Federal Trade Commissions labeling standards for sexually explicit spam
* URL rules, which identify email messages that contain spam URL addresses that are inserted into the body of the message
* A rule to prevent the Sober.h, a "spambot Trojan," which was responsible for June's avalanche of hate-mail spam
"McAfee SpamKiller monthly RENUs enable our IT department to schedule spam updates on a more regular basis, helping to streamline the administrative process and reduce management costs," said Dan Lukas, lead security architect of Aurora Health Care. "The updated rules help us to prevent new sophisticated methods of spam, prevent virus infections and address issues such as regulatory compliance and legal liability."
"McAfee monitors spammers very closely and continuously refines its software to accurately and effectively trap every kind of spam, despite the changes in spammer tactics," said Christopher Bolin, executive vice president and chief technology officer. "McAfee SpamKiller provides both reactive and proactive spam detection techniques which, combined with increased incremental updates and technology improvements to the SpamAssassin engine and rule sets, offer the most up-to-date protection in a powerful and easy-to-use solution."
Availability
Monthly RENUs will be released at the end of each month commencing July 2004. For more information on McAfee SpamKiller for Mail Servers or McAfee SpamKiller Appliances, please visit http://www.mcafeesecurity.com or call 888-VIRUS-NO. 07.07.2004, Contentmanager
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