BitDefender, which provides anti-malware security solutions, has won its sixth consecutive VBSpam Award for it’s BitDefender Security for Mail Servers 3.0.2.

This leading application, designed for Linux servers, came out with a Gold following the latest Virus Bulletin Anti-Spam Comparative Review. The review revealed there was only one false positive out of 2,400 legitimate emails.

The test involved using a SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 for a 11-day period. Emails were sent to a number of Virus Bulletin email addresses and were mixed with spam emails provided by Project Honey Pot. And the emails were also sent in multiple language and character sets, including English, French, Russian, Dutch, Norwegian and Asian languages.

The result was an impressive 97.84% of spam messages were caught during the test, giving a false positive rate of only 0.04%.

Catalin Cosoi, Senior Researcher at BitDefender, said:
“We are thrilled to receive another VBSpam Award for BitDefender Security for Mail Servers 3.0.2. This award represents our sixth consecutive honour from Virus Bulletin, and we are particularly happy with test results showing only a single false positive out of 2400 genuine emails.”

The company say the success of the BitDefender is based on a new technology based on live query. This originates from the cloud-computing paradigm, providing an immediate response time and protection to users all over the world, regardless of language or what type of spam they receive.

How Does BitDefender Antivirus Software work?

In practice, it works by first scanning an incoming email locally with proprietary, proactive antispam solutions. If the email passes the initial filtering sequence, but still cannot be categorised as spam, or a legitimate message, then a proprietary algorithm extracts key elements from the analysed mail. This then creates something similar to a unique encrypted fingerprint of that message. Finally, if the BitDefender network of servers finds a match in its databases of known spam fingerprints, it issues a block command to the client application.

This provides a very thorough technique of catching spam emails.

Guest Article by Neil Camp