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Product Information

Symantec Message Filter powered by Brightmail (formerly Symantec Brightmail Message Filter) combines effective spam filtering, high accuracy rate and a flexible, high throughput engine. Deployed at the email gateway, this easy-to-manage solution defends against spam, phishing, viruses, and other unwanted email. With user selectable industry specific filtering capabilities it meets service providers security needs without imposing a significant administrative burden.

Features

Key features

• Real-time automated spam filter updates backed by the Global Intelligence Network.
• Statsig technology specifically targeting 419/Nigerian spam, a leading source of spam contributing to brand erosion.
• 99% antispam effectiveness rate with very few false positives.
• Adjustable rules based on service provider and large enterprise needs to provide the best mix of performance and effectiveness in large scale deployments.
• Award-winning Symantec Antivirus protection scans and cleans messages infected with viruses and mass-mailing worms.
• Centralised reporting provides in-depth filtering statistics with visibility across all servers, providing key data on spam filtering performance and the latest spam trends.

Key benefits

• Award-winning solution leveraging multiple technologies, globally distributed operations centers, patented spam detection network, and real-time filter delivery mechanisms to provide effective filtering for large scale messaging infrastructures.
• High accuracy rate ensures users don’t miss important email due to misclassification.
• Daily monitoring of accuracy and automatic review of all potential false positives reduce administration overhead.
• Real-time and automatic updates provide latest protection and require no tuning or training of filters by administrators.
• Integrates with Sun Java Messaging Server, Message Systems Ecelerity, Sendmail, Postfix and Microsoft based MTAs, as well as many more.

System Req.

Windows

• Windows Server 2003 (SP 1) Standard Edition or Enterprise Edition 32-bit and 64-bit systems
• Windows Server 2008 Standard Edition or Enterprise Edition 32-bit and 64-bit systems
• Windows Server 2008 R2 Standard Edition or Enterprise Edition 64-bit system
• Intel Pentium 4 processor or compatible
• 1 GB RAM minimum
• 1 GB disk minimum space
• Java Runtime Environment (32-bit JRE 1.5 or later)
• Supported MTAs - Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS), Windows SMTP service.

Solaris

• Sun Solaris 8, 9, or 10
• UltraSPARC processor
• 1GB RAM minimum
• 1GB disk spam minimum
• Supported MTA - Sendmail 8.12.11 or later, Sendmail Switch 3.1 or later, Sun Java Messaging Server 6.x or later, Sun Java Messaging Server 7.x update 3 and update 4 for 64-bit systems, Message Systems.

Linux

• Linux RHEL ES/AS 4.0 or 5.0
• Intel Pentium 4 processor or compatible
• 1 GB RAM minimum
• 1 GB disk minimum space
• Supported MTAs - Sendmail 8.12.11 or later, Sendmail Switch 3.1 or later, Postfix, Message Systems.