F-Secure adds CommTouch's Zero-Hour technology to security products

CommTouch's Zero-Hour anti-virus and anti-spam technology goes into action during the first few hours following a virus release or spam blast.

Security vendor F-Secure announced on Tuesday plans to integrate CommTouch’s real-time anti-virus and anti-spam technology into its offerings.

F-Secure has chosen to integrate CommTouch’s Zero-Hour anti-virus and anti-spam technology to help protect its customers during those first critical hours following a virus release or spam blast when filters don’t yet know to scan for the new outbreaks, according to company officials.

Instead of matching inbound e-mail messages with known virus signatures, Commtouch’s Zero-Hour technology scans the Internet for indications of mass outbreaks using the company’s Recurrent Pattern Detection method. This technology defines and searches for mass-distribution characteristics of e-mail traversing the Internet.

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Security vendor F-Secure announced on Tuesday plans to integrate CommTouch’s real-time anti-virus and anti-spam technology into its offerings.

F-Secure has chosen to integrate CommTouch’s Zero-Hour anti-virus and anti-spam technology to help protect its customers during those first critical hours following a virus release or spam blast when filters don’t yet know to scan for the new outbreaks, according to company officials.

Instead of matching inbound e-mail messages with known virus signatures, Commtouch’s Zero-Hour technology scans the Internet for indications of mass outbreaks using the company’s Recurrent Pattern Detection method. This technology defines and searches for mass-distribution characteristics of e-mail traversing the Internet.

F-Secure plans to integrate Commtouch’s technology into all of its Internet security products, starting with its Internet Gatekeeper 6.6 Web and e-mail gateway security software that is slated for release at the end of the month, the company says. Commtouch’s technology will complement Internet Gatekeeper’s anti-virus, anti-spam, content filtering, and access control features with this real-time protection, they say.

Other companies that license CommTouch’s technology for inclusion in their products include Sendmail, Tumbleweed, and Mirapoint.