Postini data centres blocked more than 100 million viruses every day during the height of a virus attack in recent months.
The majority (over 50%) of these viruses delivered through fake notices of underreported income from the IRS, and another large contingent of virus-infected e-mails included false package tracking attachments. Spammers also sent an e-mail that asked for the recipient's user name and password to their Webmail account, and then used the compromised account to generate spam.
Postini continues to capture many of these phishing attempts before they reach your users' inboxes. For unprotected mail systems, only a tiny fraction of the recipients need to be fooled for spammers to add hundreds of computers to their botnets every day.
Postini's Early Detection feature provides additional protection against zero hour threats, which are emerging viruses/malware that are not yet captured in a virus definition file. With Early Detection, incoming messages that contain suspicious content are temporarily quarantined for deeper analysis and rescanned by the service's anti-virus engines with updated signatures. Early Detection targets messages with executable file attachments and messages that trigger the advanced anti-virus heuristics filter.
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