Gateway Anti-Spam Appliances

SpamKiller Appliances
 

Unsolicited commercial e-mail, or "spam" as we all know it is not just a nuisance--it is a real, quantifiable problem costing enterprises worldwide millions of dollars and countless hours of lost productivity. Now you can stop spam before it ever gets to your inbox, with the new McAfee WebShield Appliances.

McAfee(r) WebShield 3000 Series Appliances with SpamKiller add-on, deliver industry-leading anti-spam protection to protect companies from the ever-growing problems of spam in the enterprise.

The WebShield Appliances with SpamKiller add-on covers everything from:

• Content Filtering—Key words or phrases can be entered that might appear in e-mail indicating the message is spam

• Blacklists and Whitelists—Blacklists are lists of known senders of spam e-mail, and whitelists are known senders of e-mail that may be classified as spam but is information that you want to receive

• DNS Blocklist Support—WebShield integrates with DNS-Blocklists to ensure e-mails that are sent by known senders of spam are blocked

The SpamKiller Appliance provides rules-based scanning and scoring.  Hundreds of rules are integrated with the solution and are used to scan every e-mail that is received.  E-mails are scored based on a series of internal tests, giving extremely accurate detection

SpamKiller Provides three additional levels of spam protection:

• Integrity Analysis—The header, layout, and organization of each e-mail message is examined to identify the common characteristics of spam

• Heuristic Detection—Using a series of internal tests, SpamKiller determines the likelihood that a message might be spam; each test carries a score to help reduce false-positives

• Bayesian Filtering—With Bayesian filtering technology, the SpamKiller solution is able to teach itself what is and isn’t spam for a particular organization—truly intelligent spam detection