WebWasher Secure Anti-Malware

We downloaded Secure Computing's WebWasher Secure Anti-Malware software from the vendor's Web site, the only gateway software tested, and installed it on a server. The software can thwart spam and viruses in addition to malware. WebWasher disposed of 67 out of 70 test malware instances.

We installed WebWasher on a HP ProLiant DL360 dual-processer server and got a latency of 20 msec to 24 msec for nonexecutable files. For packets with executables in them, WebWasher latency ranged from 170 msec to 250 msec. Secure Computing says WebWasher can scale to handle greater volumes of Internet traffic according to the processor speed of the server it is installed on.

Malware-definition updates can happen hourly, and the frequency of the software's automatic polling for updates can be changed to specific times each day. WebWasher incorporates SNMP support for integration with a network-management system.

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We downloaded Secure Computing's WebWasher Secure Anti-Malware software from the vendor's Web site, the only gateway software tested, and installed it on a server. The software can thwart spam and viruses in addition to malware. WebWasher disposed of 67 out of 70 test malware instances.

We installed WebWasher on a HP ProLiant DL360 dual-processer server and got a latency of 20 msec to 24 msec for nonexecutable files. For packets with executables in them, WebWasher latency ranged from 170 msec to 250 msec. Secure Computing says WebWasher can scale to handle greater volumes of Internet traffic according to the processor speed of the server it is installed on.

Malware-definition updates can happen hourly, and the frequency of the software's automatic polling for updates can be changed to specific times each day. WebWasher incorporates SNMP support for integration with a network-management system.

WebWasher knows malware by its file signature, URL, IP address, ActiveX Object ID or through heuristic analysis that looks for specific known exploits and malicious behavior within a computer program. For each event, the product records date, time, source IP address, source URL, destination IP address, spyware ID, file size and file type.

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