Symantec Premium AntiSpam
Add-on subscription service provides best-of-breed spam prevention

Features & Benefits:

Features and Technical Specificiations

• 99% spam-catching rate
• 99.9999% accuracy rate
• Protects over 300 million users
• Filters over 15% of worldwide email and over 100 billion email per month¹
• Protects 9 of the top 12 U.S. ISPs²
• Global operations centers in the United States, Ireland, Australia, and Taiwan
• Automatic secure update of content filters every 5-10 minutes 24x7 that respond to the latest spamming threats
• Automatically detects spam without requiring manual adjustment of filtering rules or monitoring of false positives

Key Features:

• Easily enabled by simply adding a license key to Mail Security for Microsoft Exchange, Mail Security for SMTP, or Mail Security for Domino.
• Catches spam with a 99 percent effectiveness rate.
• Prevents false positives with a 99.9999 percent accuracy rate (less than 1 false positive in every million messages).
• Continuous automatic spam filter updates, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

Key Benefits:

• Add-on subscription service powered by Brightmail technology and response provides best-of-breed spam prevention for Symantec Mail Security and Symantec AntiVirus Enterprise Edition customers
• Multi-layered spam prevention leverages multiple filtering technologies, including spam signatures, heuristics, reputation filters, language identification, and proprietary methods
• Offers a spam detection rate of 99% and the highest accuracy rate against false positives (99.9999%)*
• No new software or hardware is required, and the service requires no additional IT administration or tuning once deployed
• Intelligent language filters detect and block foreign language spam
• Requires no new installation of software or hardware - nor any additional IT administration or tuning once enabled.
• Automatically detects spam without requiring manual adjustment of filtering rules or monitoring of false positives.
• Provides flexible administrative settings for handling spam.
• Offers antifraud filters to protect against phishing and email fraud.

*Yankee Group, 2004
1- Source: "Percentage of Total Internet Email Identified as Spam"
2- Source: "Top 22 U.S. ISP by Subscribers," Q1 2004

System Requirements:

Symantec Premium AntiSpam

Operating System:

• Solaris 8 or 9
• Windows 2000 Server (SP3)
• Windows 2003 Server (SP1)
• Windows 2008 Server

Product required to use Symantec Premium Antispam

Symantec Mail Security for SMTP 4.1

• Windows 2000 Server/Windows Server 2003
• Sun Solaris 8 or 9

Symantec Mail Security 4.6 for Microsoft Exchange

• Microsoft Exchange 2000/2003
• Windows 2000 Server/Windows Server 2003

Symantec Mail Security 4.1 for Domino

• Lotus Domino Server versions 6.5.x, 6.0.x, and 5.0.1x
• Windows 2000 Server/Windows Server 2003

Documentation:

Download the Symantec Premium AntiSpam Datasheet (PDF).