BitDefender Security for Mail Servers 3.0.2 achieves Virus Bulletin Gold Award for three tests
November 2009
IT in Manufacturing
BitDefender linux version provides low false positives, high spam catch rate.
BitDefender, an award-winning provider of innovative anti-malware security solutions, today announced that BitDefender Security for Mail Servers 3.0.2 has once again achieved a Gold Award in the latest Virus Bulletin Anti-Spam Comparative Review. Designed for Linux servers, Security for Mail Servers 3.0.2 achieved Gold for its low false positive rate coupled with its high spam catch rate.
Linux products were tested on a SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 for a period of 20 days. The e-mail corpus consisted of all e-mails sent to several Virus Bulletin
e-mail addresses, mixed with a spam stream provided by Project Honey Pot. E-mails from both sources were sent through the products in realtime. Additionally, the test messages were in multiple language and character sets, including English, French, Asian languages, Russian, Dutch, Norwegian and others.
BitDefender Security for Mail Servers 3.0.2 caught 97,89% of the spam messages in the test, with a false positive rate of only 0,707%.
“We are thrilled to receive another Gold Award from Virus Bulletin for BitDefender Security for Mail Servers 3.0.2,” said Catalin Cosoi, senior antispam and antiphishing researcher for BitDefender. “This award represents a distinction we are quite proud of, having faced a considerable number of competitors. Additionally, it further solidifies BitDefender as a provider of proactive detection that goes well beyond the capabilities of current-day heuristics, offering users protection from known and unknown threats.”
For the past four months, BitDefender Security for Mail Servers 3.0.2 has successfully used a new technology based on live query. Stemming from the cloud-computing paradigm, this technology provides an immediate response time and protection to users all over the world, regardless of language or what type of spam they receive. With this technology, when a new e-mail arrives, it is first scanned locally with proprietary, proactive antispam solutions. If it passes the initial filtering sequence and still cannot be categorised as spam or legit, a proprietary algorithm extracts key elements from the analysed mail and creates something similar to a unique encrypted fingerprint of that message. If the BitDefender network of servers finds a match in its databases of known spam fingerprints, it issues a block command to the client application.
For more information regarding BitDefender products, please visit www.BitDefender.com
For more information contact Alina Anton, senior PR and marketing coordinator, EMEA & APAC Business Unit, Bitdefender, +40 212 063 470, [email protected], www.bitdefender.com
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