Virus Protection for Microsoft Exchange Environments Latest studies have shown that over 90% of computer viruses are spread via e-mail. Within e-mail, viruses are able to spread to all over the world in just a few hours. Virus writers often take advantage of the most commonly used e-mail and groupware systems in order to maximize the speed and effects of viruses. By discovering vulnerabilities in different e-mail systems, they are able to create viruses that are more and more complex and destructive.A good example of a new breed of the complex viruses is Bugbear, a mass mailing network worm, which appeared in the wild on September 30, 2002. Among other things, Bugbear can pick up e-mail messages from an infected users mailbox and send them out along with any attachments. This may cause companies severe financial and legal consequences. Imagine, for instance, how much harm an e-mail containing your companys business secrets would cause if it fell into wrong hands. In the worst case, it could lead to both extensive productivity and monetary losses, but also to loss of professional reputation.With F-Secure Anti-Virus, you can reduce commercial and legal risks caused by virus attacks. F-Secure Anti-Virus for Microsoft Exchange is especially designed for Microsoft Exchange environments to not only protect your corporate network, but also to ensure that your company does not send out infected messages to your customers and business partners.F-Secure Anti-Virus for Microsoft ExchangeF-Secure Anti-Virus for Microsoft Exchange protects Microsoft Exchange environments from viruses, worms and Trojans, scanning both incoming and outgoing messages. The product scans not only e-mail messages and attachments, but it also stops viruses in documents and notes posted to public folders. Because the scanning is done on the e-mail server in real-time, the protection is transparent and always on.Ease of Use and DeploymentF-Secure Anti-Virus for Microsoft Exchange enables fast deployment and configuration either with an easy-to-use local user interface or with the same management system you use for all your F-Secure Anti-Virus applications.Several Scanning OptionsF-Secure Anti-Virus for Microsoft Exchange supports real-time and manual scanning of mailboxes and public folders as well as full and incremental scanning. On incremental scanning only recent files are inspected, minimizing scan time.Automatic Protection of Public FoldersF-Secure Anti-Virus for Microsoft Exchange automatically scans documents posted to public folders, allowing anyone to open them without worrying about infecting a workstation.Attachment FilteringF-Secure Anti-Virus for Microsoft Exchange protects against fast spreading viruses, worms and Trojans by enabling attachment filtering based on file names and extensions.High AvailabilityF-Secure Anti-Virus for Microsoft Exchange ensures your system does not suffer from operation disruptions. With a server pool, the system automatically connects to the backup server if the primary scanning server becomes unavailable.Easy MonitoringF-Secure Anti-Virus for Microsoft Exchange provides extensive monitoring, reporting and alerting functions, enabling a fast response to virus outbreaks.New Enhanced Version Available in January 2003An enhanced version of F-Secure Anti-Virus for Microsoft Exchange will be available in January 2003. Version 6.10 is even easier to install and use than previous versions. Now installation is so straightforward that even smaller companies with scarce IT resources find the product easy to deploy. In addition to ease-of-use, the new version introduces the following new features:Support for Scheduled ScanningVersion 6.10 allows the administrator to run scheduled scanning during the night or weekends. This means that maintenance work can be done when the amount of e-mail traffic is minimal.Outbreak ManagementVersion 6.10 enables faster responses to virus outbreaks. The product notifies the administrator if the number of infections exceeds a certain level in a given time period. The administrator can also configure the program to run a specified script when outbreaks occur.Higher PerformanceVersion 6.10 supports Microsoft's Virus Scanning API 2.0, providing a solid, reliable, high-performance virus scanning implementation with the Microsoft Exchange 2000 Server. Version 6.10 also allows you to share e-mail traffic between several virus scanner servers in order to improve the performance under heavy e-mail loads.For more information, please visit the product page at:http://www.f-secure.com/products/anti-virus/ms-exchange/An evaluation version of the version 6.10 will be available for download in January 2003 on F-Secure web site at:http://www.f-secure.com/download-purchase/list.shtmlAuthor: Päivi Juolahti, Product Marketing Specialist Begin | Back
Latest studies have shown that over 90% of computer viruses are spread via e-mail. Within e-mail, viruses are able to spread to all over the world in just a few hours. Virus writers often take advantage of the most commonly used e-mail and groupware systems in order to maximize the speed and effects of viruses. By discovering vulnerabilities in different e-mail systems, they are able to create viruses that are more and more complex and destructive.