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Cleaning the system using e50 software

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Rashida Bakait

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With the rise in number of online transactions, it is of little wonder that

the focus on matter of security has also been on the rise. In an era of

e-commerce where the success of a business transaction largely depends on

network security, the need to have anti-virus tools that could expedite the

process of cleansing the inbound and outbound mail becomes all the more

necessary.

As a first step in this direction, developers of Mcafee, Network Associates

and their strategic partner in India, Texport Technologies recently came out

with their new anti virus software package, e-50. CNS spoke to Texport

Technologies' Chief Operating Officer, Arun Pathak on the product. Here are some

excerpts:

What is e-50 and what are its features?

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e-50 is a product of Mcafee, and the world's first anti-virus appliance. e-50

carries feature such as auto scanning of mails to differentiate between abusive,

non productive and confidential data. e-50 is used only after the firewall is

installed onto the mail server for scanning the SMTP traffic. With viruses

getting more complicated by the day, the size of the anti-virus signature files

is also increasing. As a result anti-virus scanning has become slower, calling

for a need for an anti-virus appliance that would expedite the scanning process.

How different is the product from the existing e-business security tools?

Most anti-virus software available in the market are slow as it calls for

sharing processing resource for the mail server. As a result, the anti-viruses

on the mail server have not been very effective. e50 is an appliance, which does

not utilize the resource of the mail server as it is pre-installed on an

independent hardware and is capable of scanning for 10,000 to 12,000 mails in an

hour. This is almost seven-eight times faster than the normal anti-virus

software that is available in the market. This apart, it also does content

scanning from the mails.

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On an average, how many viruses are detected per month and how do they

affect an establishment?

Around 200-250 viruses are developed around the globe, on an average, every

month. Most of them cause damage to establishments in terms of productivity

loss, data corruption and uptime loss etc. Some of the most damaging viruses are

polymorphic viruses, macro viruses, worms, active X and Java applets. Losses

caused by virus havoc last year, was approximately $17.1 billion and this has

been rising every year.

How will this product combat more advanced viruses such as 'Anna

Kournikova' and 'Melissa'?

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e50 uses Mcafee anti-virus engine, which is one of the most effective tools.

Mcafee has its virus research labs in six different continents working round the

clock. Network Associates' spending on research alone is around $60 million. e50

is also designed for auto update on any fresh release of a virus counter.

What kind of a market do you envisage for the product?

We would focus our attention on large and medium sized organizations for our

products. e50 is one of the few available integrated world-class anti-virus

products in the market and hence we see a good market for our product. We have

already introduced the e100 series that have preloaded Mcafee on a Sun NetraT1

BOX. This product is targeted at ISP's and large firms.

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