For organizations that want the best defense against the inflow of spam for Microsoft ISA Servers, there is McAfee SpamKiller for SecurityShield. Part of the McAfee Secure Content Management Solution, McAfee SpamKiller scores e-mails based on a series of internal tests, giving extremely accurate detection right out of the box. McAfee SpamKiller for McAfee SecurityShield is available as an additional cost add-on to the McAfee SecurityShield license.

Key Benefits

• Provides rules-based scanning and scoring - Hundreds of rules are integrated with the solution and are used to scan every e-mail that is received
  
  
• Accurate detection - E-mails are scored based on a series of internal tests.
  
  
• Identify phishing attacks - McAfee SpamKiller includes specific rules which help to identify phishing attacks by looking for certain phishing-specific characteristics that can be present  in e-mail
  
  
• Extended Policy Support - Provides organizations with policy controls for virus protection, content, and spam filtering rules

Product Features

Integrity Analysis
The header, layout, and organization of each e-mail message is examined to identify the common characteristics of spam

Heuristic Detection
Using a series of internal tests, McAfee SpamKiller determines the likelihood that a message might be spam; each test carries a score to help reduce false-positives.

Content Filtering
This functionality identifies key words or phrases that appear in an email, which could indicate that the message is spam.

Blacklists and Whitelists
Blacklists are lists of known senders of spam e-mail, and whitelists are known senders of e-mail that may be classified as spam but is information that you want to receive. Blacklists and whitelists can be defined on a company-wide basis by administrators. In addition, each user can create personal blacklists and whitelists for greater detection accuracy.

Bayesian Filtering
With Bayesian filtering technology, the McAfee SpamKiller solution is able to teach itself what is and isn’t spam for a particular organization - truly intelligent spam.

Self-Tuning
McAfee SpamAssassin is able to learn the characteristics of the e-mail you receive to adjust the overall spam rating for new messages sent by a known sender.

DNS-Blocklist support
By integrating with blocklists available on the Internet, McAfeeSpamKiller is able to block known spam email instantly.