Virus attacks are the most elusive yet damaging of e-mail threats. Disguised as personal, professional or unsolicited e-mail, viruses cause havoc to networks worldwide on a daily basis. Networks are extremely vulnerable between the time of a virus outbreak and when an anti-virus signature is available. This window of vulnerability is often 24 hours or longer, causing destruction and vast costs. The complexity and speed of virus attacks is so overwhelming, typical point-product anti-virus solutions are not enough. A multi-layered approach is essential to virus protection for any organisation.

Equally as menacing, Zombie attacks, can disrupt business operations for days. Zombies are remote-controlled code that get installed on end-user systems and send spam, phishing and viruses using corporate e-mail systems. These Zombie attacks can lead to corporate domain blacklisting, network bandwidth deterioration, intellectual property theft and substantial costs to purge malicious code.

SonicWALL Email Anti-Virus Subscription further augments SonicWALL GRID Anti-Virus to deliver powerful protection from viruses and Zombie attacks. This essential subscription service includes SonicWALL Time Zero Anti-Virus, anti-virus signatures from industry leaders Kaspersky Labs and McAfee and Zombie Detection.

Features and Benefits

SonicWALL Time Zero Anti-Virus

• Uses predictive and responsive technologies to protect organizations from virus infections before signature updates are available. The suspect e-mails are identified and immediately quarantined.

Anti-virus signatures

• From leading anti-virus vendors McAfee and Kaspersky Lab provide decisive protection from known viruses. Infected e-mails are detected and stopped.

Zombie Detection

• Monitors outbound e-mail traffic to determine whether internal computers have been infected by malicious code. Through this technology, affected computers are identified and their outbound traffic quarantined.