Security vendor F-Secure announced on Tuesday plans to integrate CommTouch’s real-time anti-virus and anti-spam technology
into its offerings.
F-Secure has chosen to integrate CommTouch’s Zero-Hour anti-virus and anti-spam technology to help protect its customers during
those first critical hours following a virus release or spam blast when filters don’t yet know to scan for the new outbreaks,
according to company officials.
Instead of matching inbound e-mail messages with known virus signatures, Commtouch’s Zero-Hour technology scans the Internet
for indications of mass outbreaks using the company’s Recurrent Pattern Detection method. This technology defines and searches
for mass-distribution characteristics of e-mail traversing the Internet.
F-Secure plans to integrate Commtouch’s technology into all of its Internet security products, starting with its Internet
Gatekeeper 6.6 Web and e-mail gateway security software that is slated for release at the end of the month, the company says.
Commtouch’s technology will complement Internet Gatekeeper’s anti-virus, anti-spam, content filtering, and access control
features with this real-time protection, they say.
Other companies that license CommTouch’s technology for inclusion in their products include Sendmail, Tumbleweed, and Mirapoint.
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