Email security solution receives Gold Award from virus bulletin Holzwickede, may 18, 2010, for the seventh time in a row the journal has virus bulletin (VB) the email security solution, BitDefender security for mail servers 3.0.2 awarded the Gold Award. In a comparison test, the software scored with a high spam detection rate and a very low number of false positives. Virus protection expert BitDefender (www.bitdefender.de) has developed the software for Linux systems. Virus Bulletin examined several security solutions on a SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 11. The trial comprised 20 days. During this period, VB sent a mix of legitimate messages and spam to several test addresses.
The messages were also sent in several languages such as English, French, Russian, Dutch and Norwegian. The results for BitDefender: Security for mail servers recognized 99,55% of all spam messages. The false positve-rate, calculated according to the amount of false positives, was only 0.14%. The software achieved the second place among all tested solutions. Security for mail servers 3.0.2 works on the basis of a novel anti-virus, anti-spam and anti-phishing technology and combined content and attachment filtering. The integrated filter technology Livequeryr multiple checks incoming emails on acute threats. First of all, the software scans new messages locally with a proactive antispam solution. It is always not clearly proven after this first test whether the mail than to classify dangerous or legally, be extracted single key elements from the message.
The software then creates an encrypted fingerprint of the message. So that these can be identified undoubtedly, without privacy policy violate and to reveal sensitive content. The BitDefender Server network in its data banks recognize this fingerprint, the mail as spam is classified. Then, the solution causes a block command to the particular client application. More information about the BitDefender business solutions below: site/main/business /. About BitDefender BitDefender is software developer, one of the industry’s fastest and most efficient product lines internationally certified security software. Since the founding of the company in 2001, BitDefender has set new standards in the field of proactive protection against threats from the Internet. Every day, BitDefender protects tens of millions of private and business customers around the world and gives them the good feeling that your digital life is safe. BitDefender sells its security solutions in more than 100 countries through a global VAD and reseller network. More detailed information about BitDefender and BitDefender products are available in the press centre online.