ECUi committed to reduction of SPAM

As part of our continuing ongoing commitment to reduce the amount of SPAM and the threat of email based Virus attacks to our clients ECUi is pleased to introduce SecurityPlus, now activated for all Shared/Virtual eMail Servers.

SecurityPlus provides the next generation of antivirus and spam protection for client mail servers with powerful real-time spam, Recurrent Pattern Detection Technology (RPD™), Zero Hour™ Virus Outbreak Protection, and email antivirus protection with each inbound email message being scanned prior to final delivery to client mail servers thereby effectively stopping malicious software at the gateway before ever reaching your mail server. When a corrupted message with a security threat is detected, SecurityPlus refuses to accept the email and its attachments – effectively stopping an issue before it can arise.

Some of the key features which have been incorporated in phase 1 of our updates are outlined below; phase 2 (scheduled for Saturday, November 11, 2006) will involve the updating of the physical iMail (eMail) servers to provide new Anti-SPAM tools permitting clients to customize filtering and Anti-Spam settings at the server level. Phase 3 will involve incorporating the Sender ID Framework, which is an e-mail authentication technology protocol that helps address the problem of spoofing and phishing by verifying the domain name from which e-mail is sent. Sender ID validates the origin of e-mail by verifying the IP address of the sender against the purported owner of the sending domain.

Phase 1 – Presently Active, effective Wednesday, November 8, 2006

Zero-Hour Virus Outbreak Protection

Real-time, anti-spam, zero-hour anti-virus, anti-spyware, and anti-phishing technology capable of proactively protecting automatically and within minutes of an outbreak.

Outbreak Protection requires no heuristic rules, content filtering, or signature updates, but instead relies on the analysis of 'patterns' associated with an email transmission and compares them to similar patterns collected from billions of email messages sampled daily, in real-time, from live Internet email traffic. The resulting analysis can detect outbreaks in “Zero Hour” -- much faster than traditional filter and signature based solutions that require detecting, defining, and disseminating new virus information.

Enhanced Kaspersky Antivirus Engine

Enhanced Antivirus protection from Kaspersky Lab combines traditional antivirus defense methods with the latest proactive technologies, providing solid and dependable protection against viruses and malware (malicious programs).

Recurrent Pattern Detection Technology (RPD)

Recurrent Pattern Detection (RPD™) technology detects and classifies all types of email-borne threat patterns in real-time. It extracts and then analyzes relevant message patterns, which are used to identify massive email borne outbreaks. It classifies both distribution patterns and structure patterns and the analysis results are stored in a vast warehouse of classifications.

RPD is designed to distinguish between the distribution patterns of solicited bulk emails, representing legitimate business correspondence, from those of unsolicited bulk emails by applying a reverse analysis. The results of this analysis are ‘bleached’ message patterns belonging to 'good' messages such as popular newsletters, mailing lists, etc.

RPD identifies nearly 100% of incoming threat messages with almost no cases of false positives. It is language-agnostic and is equally effective for all message formats and encoding types.

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