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Anti-virus and security product maker Panda Software said
Thursday that the company is dropping its own anti-spam technology
to use an OEM anti-spam solution from Mailshell. The new anti-spam
technology would be used in the full range of Panda's products, from
enterprise security appliances to desktop consumer anti-virus
products.
According to Patrick Hinojosa, chief technology officer at Panda,
the company is adopting what it senses is the leading anti-spam
technology available. "This product uses list-based and Bayesian
detection for final scoring," Hinojosa said. "It will be updated on
a daily basis."
Mailshell's filtering technology determines a probability that a
given message is spam, and rejects messages that get a score that's
too high. He noted that the spam filtering thresholds are
user-adjustable.
According to the company, the Mailshell anti-spam engine can
perform more than 300,000 checks to determine whether a message is
spam. The company says the engine is self-tuning to make it highly
accurate in detecting spam. "It gives a very low rate of false
positives," Hinojosa said.
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Panda had been trying to use its own version of an anti-spam
product, but it met with limited success. "It wasn't as good as we
wanted it to be," Hinojosa said. He noted that getting the required
databases built was expected to take longer than the company felt
was appropriate to meet customer demand. Instead, "We're going with
a leader in this technology," he said. "This will be in all of our
products that have anti-spam."
Hinojosa also said the company's consumer-level products will get
an infusion of enterprise-class technology in the form of an IPS
(intrusion prevention system) already available in larger products.
"It will block viruses and worms, help protect against buffer
overflows and perform behavioral analysis," Hinojosa said. "It will
also do deep packet inspection." He said products containing the new
anti-spam technology should be available before the end of the year.
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