McAfee® Active Mail Protection

McAfee® Active Mail Protection provides a multi-layered defense against mail-borne threats, with anti-virus protection, spam blocking, and content filtering wrapped into a single solution. This comprehensive set of tools is tightly integrated under McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator®, for powerful, scalable security policy management and detailed graphical reporting.

Key Benefits

Leading anti-virus technology – Using the award-winning McAfee scan engine, Active Mail Protection protects against all types of viruses and malicious code, including new and unknown threats
Spam blocking – Active Mail Protection uses the industry-leading SpamAssassin® engine to block spam before it impacts users
Prevent inappropriate or abusive email – Administrators can use a variety of advanced content filtering tools to deal with inappropriate content
A truly integrated solution – The tools in Active Mail Protection combine for seamless performance in a coordinated, easy-to-manage solution
Centralized management and reporting – Inclusion of McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator provides a complete security management solution, including detailed graphical reporting, from a single console

Product Features

Leading anti-virus technology

The McAfee anti-virus scan engine stops every type of virus and malicious code threat, including “traditional” viruses, email worms, Internet worms, DDoS (distributed denial-of-service) attacks, backdoor and remote access Trojans, and zombies. Using technology that drills down into compressed data, Active Mail Protection is also able to find hidden threats buried in .zip and other compressed file types.

Proactive protection is delivered through advanced heuristics and generic detection, which allow Active Mail Protection to protect—in advance—against new, unseen viruses and other threats.

Sophisticated spam blocking
McAfee SpamKiller®, powered by SpamAssassin, applies an extensive set of rules to each email, scoring each on the basis of characteristics that are indicative of spam messages. There are five levels of spam detection:

Integrity analysis

SpamKiller examines the header, layout, and organization of each email message to identify the common characteristics of spam

Heuristic detection

A series of internal tests determines the likelihood of a message being spam; each test carries a score to help reduce false positives

Content filtering

Each email is checked for key words or phrases that might indicate that the message is spam

Black- and whitelists

Blacklists are lists of known spam senders; whitelists are known senders of possible spam that users still want to receive. Users can create their own lists to control which messages reach their inbox

Self-tuning

SpamKiller learns the characteristics of the email you receive and adjusts the "overall spam rating" accordingly, reducing the chance of false-positive identification