• 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

Content filtering and management
The Internet is not the only entry point for a virus—collaborative environments such as email servers are also at risk. McAfee GroupShield specifically protects this layer of the network, with anti-virus support for Lotus Domino and Microsoft Exchange servers.

Sending an email is the same as using corporate letterhead. Hateful or otherwise offensive themes can result in legal liability for companies of all sizes. Administrators can use preset rules or customize their own to filter profanity, sexism, racism, and other offensive content; rules can be applied at a departmental or even user-group level.

 

Note: The following are minimum system requirements only. Actual requirement will vary depending on the nature of your environment.

McAfee SpamKiller for Microsoft Exchange

	Mail Platform: Microsoft Exchange 2000, 2003 server, or Advanced Server
	Operating System: Microsoft Windows 2000 or 2003
	Mailbox Limit: None
	Disk Space: 200MB free disk space or higher
	Memory: 512MB memory or higher
	Processor: 400MHz Pentium II or higher

McAfee SpamKiller for Lotus Domino

	Mail Platform: Lotus Domino 5 and above
	Operating System: Microsoft Windows
	Mailbox Limit: None
	Disk Space: 700MB free disk space or higher
	Memory: 512MB and 139MB paging space
	Processor: 400MHz Pentium II or higher

GroupShield for Microsoft Exchange

	Mail Platform: Microsoft Exchange 5.5 2000, 2003 Server
	Operating System: Microsoft Exchange 5.5 Server, Microsoft Windows NT4.0 with SP3+, Microsoft Exchange 2000, Microsoft Windows 2000 Server, with SP3+ Microsoft Exchange 2003, Microsoft Windows 2000 Server, with Service Pack 3
	Operating System: Microsoft Windows 2000 Advanced Server, with Service Pack 3, Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition (32-bit), Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition (32-bit)
	Memory: 256MB
	Processor: 133MHz Intel Pentium or higher

McAfee SpamKiller for Lotus Domino

	Mail Platform: Lotus Domino 5 and above
	Operating System: Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 SP4+ or Windows 2000 Server SP1+, IBM AIX v4.3.3 or v5.1
	Disk Space: 700MB for Lotus Domino 5 or 1GB for Lotus Domino 6.0+
	Memory: 128MB, IBM AIX system specification or higher
	Processor: Pentium 200MHz or faster, IBM AIX system specification or higher