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About Symantec Mail Security
New features
New features
Content Compliance – These features help administrators enforce corporate
policies, reduce legal liability, and ensure compliance with regulatory
requirements.
Group policies and filter policies – An easy-to-use authoring tool lets
administrators create powerful, flexible ad hoc filters for users and groups.
The following table lists the features that have been added to this version of
Symantec Mail Security:
New features for Symantec Mail Security (all users)
Table 1-1
Category
Features
Threat
Improved email
protection
firewall
features
Sender
Authentication
Improved virus
protection
Inbound
True file type
and
recognition for
outbound
content compliance
content
filtering
controls
Keywords filtering
within attachments,
keyword frequency
filtering
Regular expression
filtering
Description
Protects against directory-harvest attacks,
denial-of-service attacks, spam attacks, and virus
attacks.
Protects against phishing attacks, using the Sender
Policy Framework (SPF), Sender ID, or both.
Additional virus verdicts protect against suspected
viruses, spyware, and adware and quarantine
messages with suspicious encrypted attachments.
Email messages that may contain viruses can be
delayed in the Suspect Virus Quarantine, then
refiltered, with updated virus definitions, if available.
This feature tcan be effective in defeating virus
attacks before conventional signatures are available.
View a list of available virus-definition updates.
Automatically detects file types without relying on
file name extensions or MIME types.
Scan within attachments to find keywords from
dictionaries you create or edit. Specify a number of
occurrences to look for.
Use regular expressions to further customize filter
conditions by searching within messages and
attachments.
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