McAfee’s anti-virus appliance to tame Code Red

MUMBAI: McAfee, a division of Network Associates, has launched its new

WebShield e500 anti-virus appliance. The new WebShield e500, claims to tame the

recent viruses that played havoc by causing billion dollar losses.

The WebShield e500 intercepts the Code Red worm as it attempts to infect one

or more servers. This anti-virus outperforms other anti-virus appliances in

internal benchmark testing, scans for viruses and malicious code within all

major Internet protocols. This includes the SMTP protocol, which is recognized

by the ICSA as being responsible for 87 per cent of virus infections such as

SirCam, and the HTTP protocol used by the Code Red worm to infect Web servers

worldwide.

Addressing the media McAfee director of product marketing Michael Callahan

said that WebShield e500 Appliance combines high performance hardware and award

winning anti-virus software in an integrated appliance. Elaborating further he

added that the new appliance offers the ability to scan large volumes of

internet traffic, scanning in excess of 120,000 SMTP messages per hour.

The WebShield e500 Appliance resides at the Internet gateway and scans SMTP,

FTP, POP3 and HTTP protocols for viruses and malicious Java, ActiveX, or

JavaScript code. The new appliance is feature rich with content scanning,

updates, remote manageability, alert notification, SPAM blocking, disclaimers,

reporting capabilities and McAfee's award winning anti-virus scanning engine.