[SpamCop-List] [media] "IronPort extends spam-detection tool"

[Skiwi]

http://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/0614ironport.html

"E-mail security vendor IronPort Systems is administering its 
spam-catching service to help users stop viruses before they penetrate 
their corporate networks.

The company announced this week its Virus Outbreak Filters, which will 
be integrated into IronPort's Messaging Gateway appliances to monitor 
incoming and outgoing e-mail traffic for messages that may contain 
viruses. IronPort is using its SenderBase database, which can monitor 
roughly 20 million IP addresses for spammer activity, to also look for 
messages that might contain viruses.
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"If we see . . . a number of IP addresses that have never sent mail 
before suddenly all sending with the same characteristics, say an 
encrypted password, we would elevate the threat level and generate an 
alert to administrators while automatically starting to quarantine 
traffic," says Tom Gillis, IronPort's vice president of marketing...."

[$4 to $7 / user, no mention of SpamCop in article]