F-Secure Anti-Virus for MIMESweeper

F-Secure Internet Gatekeeper for Linux Overview:

E-mail is a great and easy tool for communicating with people all around the world, but it also provides a fast and efficient way to spread harmful content, and different types of malicious code. Many end users send and receive illegal or offensive content even during their working hours, which might cause organizations to lose confidential information as well as waste bandwidth and storage space. These are just some of the reasons why many organization feel e-mail might in addition to the huge advantages also bring some threats along.

F-Secure Anti-Virus for Minesweeper provides scalable, high-performance virus scanning and disinfection services to protect traffic passing through Clearswift's MIMEsweeper and Websweeper products. Clearswift's leading content security tools and the award-winning F-Secure Anti-Virus work seamlessly together and provide high level of security required by the most demanding enterprise customers. With Clearswift solutions, corporations can defend themselves against threats in e-mail traffic, such as spamming and hostile attacks. By integrating F-Secure Anti-Virus for MIMEsweeper to these solutions, you get a complete, integrated solution for policy-based content security.

Today's challenges:

Eight to ten new viruses are found each day, some of them with the ability to spread globally within hours. Even if you are using the latest in content checking software, your network security is at risk from these threats. To safeguard against these virus threats, your protection needs to be automatic, integrated and transparent.

The solution:

Extend your MIMESweeper solution with automated virus protection. F-Secure® Anti-Virus™ for MIMESweeper provides detection and disinfection of e-mail borne viruses at the gateway level, before they reach your network. F-Secure provides centralized management of antivirus software with fast and simple integration to MIMESweeper, giving the corporation a powerful combination of complete content security.

Features & Benefits:

Key Features:

• Powerful content security
• Seamless integration
• Superior performance
• Integrated remote management<
• Reporting and alerting
• Automatic virus definition updates
• Available in several languages

Real-time, On the Fly Protection
F-Secure Anti-Virus for MIMEsweeper automatically stops worms, Trojans, Web or e-mail borned viruses, and Windows, macro and DOS file viruses. It also scans the content of compressed files, such as ZIP files.

Seamless Integration
F-Secure Anti-Virus for MIMEsweeper supports the latest Content Scanner Scenario interface in Clearswift's MAILsweeper and Websweeper products. This interface provides a direct connection between the Clearswift MIMEsweeper product and F-Secure Anti-Virus. This technology ensures easy installation and the highest possible scanning performance and reliability.

Automatic Virus Definition Updates
Updating of virus definition databases is automatic and secure. System administrators can always be sure they have the latest updates without manually having to search the web or restarting services in the products.

24/7 Virus Research
Antivirus products are only as good as the research and dedication behind them. The F-Secure Anti-Virus Research Team is on call 24-hours a day, responding to new and emerging threats. The research team, staffer with globally recognized virus experts, develops and distributed protection against new viruses promptly after their discovery and, in many instances, well in advance of other antivirus vendors.

Specifications:

Platforms:

F-Secure Anti-Virus for MIMESweeper:

• Windows Server 2003 Standard/Enterprise
• Windows 2000 Server or Advanced Server

Supported MIMESweeper Products:

• CS MIMESweeper™ for SMTP 5.10 (FSAV for MIMESweeper 5.60)
• CS MAILsweeper™ for SMTP 5.0 (FSAV for MIMESweeper 5.51 and later)
• CS MAILsweeper™ for SMTP 4.3 (FSAV for MIMESweeper 5.51)
• CS MIMESweeper™ for Web 5.10
• CS MIMESweeper™ for Web 5.0

Documentation:

Download the F-Secure Anti-Virus for MIMESweeper Datasheet (PDF).