The News Review:
- Agnitum Outpost Pro Security Suite 2009 review
- SonicWALL Email Security for Windows Small Business Server 2008
- Don’t give spam a chance
- ESET Announces Availability of Antivirus for Smartphones
- SonicWALL Announces Security Solutions for Windows Essential …
- Spam levels worldwide drop 70% Spam hosting organisation taken offline
Agnitum Outpost Pro Security Suite 2009 review
PC Advisor, UK
Unlike rival software security suites, Agnitum is slightly more constrained: it doesn’t for example give you the benefit of a backup system or system maintenance. Agnitum Outpost Pro Security Suite 2009 continues to score well in large AV group tests, and still earns a current Virus Bulletin VB100 badge. Its spam protection, however, is a mixed bag – it was overwhelmed by a collection of 6000+ spam messages. Rather than processing them as they arrived, Agnitum Outpost Pro Security Suite 2009 initially accepted all the email into the Windows Mail inbox and then scanned them afterwards, which took a long time to complete. Its accuracy was average – it correctly spotted 96 percent of the spam but of the remaining 4 percent ‘non-spam’, over half of it was still junk. Training definitely helps here.
SonicWALL Email Security for Windows Small Business Server 2008
Ferret, Australia
SonicWALL?s new offering integrates with SBS in just a few mouse-clicks, without complex reconfiguration. Users benefit from having no additional devices to manage and no additional servers to purchase, for lower cost of ownership. The innovative SonicWALL GRID Network provides accurate and up-to-date protection against new spam attacks. SonicWALL actively gathers vital learnings from an expansive network of millions of users and sources, and updates SES for SBS every five minutes. SonicWALL?s spam filter and end-to-end email attack monitoring optimises the blockage of spam from ever reaching or disrupting SBS. SonicWALL conducts rigorous testing and evaluation of millions of emails every day, and constantly updates SES for SBS with this spam-blocking intelligence. Customers benefit from the reduction in email volume on SBS and improved performance.
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Don’t give spam a chance
The Sun Daily, Malaysia
Operators of private homepages looking to provide a contact address for visitors are warned against writing out their email address in plain text. “A better idea is to forego a link and instead provide a contact form,” computer expert Frank Richter recommends. Marco Nassenstein, an associate at a consumer protection initiative focused on fighting spam, recommends judicious use of email greeting cards. He also advises against providing email addresses where possible for sweepstakes, surveys and online shopping, adding that there?s no guarantee that the address won?t be sold or otherwise fall into a third party?s hands. In cases where providing contact data to strangers cannot be avoided, then a “throw-away address” is just the thing. If an unacceptable amount of spam starts landing in the inbox, then simply move to a new address. Filters that automatically separate attention-worthy mails from chaff are now standard features even for free-mail addresses.
ESET Announces Availability of Antivirus for Smartphones
MarketWatch
The increasing quantity of personal and company data stored on
these devices, including data unknowingly stored in browser caches, make
mobile devices especially vulnerable to malware and other malicious
exploits. By utilizing ESET’s NOD32 scanning technology,
this lightweight anti-malware software has been optimized to proactively
protect mobile devices from the latest malicious attacks. The addition
of spam protection for SMS messaging adds another layer of security. “After experiencing performance issues with a
mobile antivirus solution offered by a large security vendor, I
downloaded ESET Mobile Antivirus when it became available in beta form
because I had used ESET NOD32 for years and had been extremely impressed
with the accuracy and speed of the desktop solution,”
said Walter Goddard a service manager at Superwinch Inc. “Aside
from the peace of mind ESET provides by proactively protecting me from
malicious attacks, the greatest benefit is that it has virtually no
impact on my phone’s performance. ”
One of the biggest challenges to providing mobile security for smaller
platforms like smartphones is their inherently limited memory,
processing, battery and bandwidth capabilities. With its light
footprint, efficient use of processing power, ability to scan removable
memory devices and compact update files, ESET Mobile Antivirus
effectively delivers protection against attacks, within the constraints
of mobile devices.
SonicWALL Announces Security Solutions for Windows Essential …
MarketWatch
“Microsoft aims to provide its customers a selection of products that
offer them the best solutions available in the industry and Windows Essential
Server Solutions continues this momentum,” said Russ Madlener, director,
Windows Server Group at Microsoft Corp. “We are pleased SonicWALL is building
out additional functionality and ensuring that our mutual customers have a
robust IT deployment to meet their specific needs. ”
Email Security
SonicWALL’s Email Security offerings help companies of all sizes protect
themselves from spam, viruses, phishing and other harmful threats in email
attacks by combining the powerful protection of threat management, content
filtering, policy management and compliance infrastructure functionality. The
new solution brings this high-performance and easy-to-use protection against
all forms of email security threats to the millions of SBS users. Available
as a hardened appliance or as Windows software, SonicWALL Email Security
protects inbound and outbound e-mail for organizations of less than 25 to over
100,000 users. SonicWALL Email Security for Windows Small Business Server is
the latest offering in the line, specifically optimized for the Microsoft
server environment to meet the needs of small businesses with an
easy-to-install, easy-to-manage solution. Network Security Appliance Series
The SonicWALL Network Security Appliance (NSA) Series applies
next-generation Unified Threat Management (UTM) to enable complete protection
at the network perimeter without compromising performance levels to SBS and
EBS and its users.
Spam levels worldwide drop 70% Spam hosting organisation taken offline
Which?, UK
Some ISPs provide spam filtering, often at no extra charge. You can buy spam-blocking software, too, which works by applying rules to check the legitimacy of incoming mail.