The ProtectPoint email security service delivers comprehensive spam and virus protection to your network. We protect your mail server from receiving, storing, and managing worthless spam emails, eliminating up to 90 to 99% spam with an extremely low false-positive rate (typically sub .01%). Simultaneously, we protect your network from all virus types in the wild including Internet worm and hybrid (blended) threat outbreaks. New virus signatures are updated daily to protect you against the latest threats.

Features

• Rapid deployment. No changes are required to your mail server, client desktop, DNS, or MX records.
• Configurable user and/or administrator notifications of policy violations.
• Automatic inspection of ZIP files contents and most other archived files to any nesting level.
• Blocks any typically unauthorized attachment file types: .exe, .vbf, .pif, .bat, .scr, .mp3.
• Built-in access to the world's largest anti-virus research library containing detailed information on 30,000 viruses, Trojans, worms, etc.
• Administrative options to delete or forward quarantined emails.
• Detailed quarantine activity reports available secure RADAR customer portal.
• Virus infection and security incident escalation procedures tailored to fit your business needs.
• Configure to quarantine spam or modify and forward to recipient's desktop spam folder for later review.
• Personal quarantines.
• Personal allow/deny lists.
• Eliminates false-positives through truth evaluation system (TeS) that uses reputation system and pattern recognition heuristics to assign confidence values to every signature. Administrators can set an acceptable confidence level in their ProtectPoint configuration.
• Spam management support and security incident escalation procedures tailored to fit your business needs.

Anti-virus

Our second-generation heuristic analyzer is designed to detect unknown viruses and provides extremely effective defenses against polymorphic and macro viruses, malware, Internet-worms, Trojans, harmful Java ActiveX controls, and other active content. Specifically, our Gateway Email AV service protects against:

• Polymorphic or self-encrypting viruses
• Stealth-viruses
• Viruses for Windows 9x, NT, and 200x, XP, and Vista
• UNIX new Java-applet viruses
• Internet worms and Trojans
• Microsoft Outlook and Express viruses
• Macro viruses infecting Word docs, Excel tables, PowerPoint presentations, and Help-files

Spam filtering

We employ more than 250 Bayesian and heuristic methods to block spam including wide-spectrum testing, header analysis, text analysis, blacklists, and Razor database support. Very little configuration; you do not need to continually input data defining your mail accounts, mailing list memberships, etc. New spam signatures are updated daily.