Avinti and Ironport break new ground in the fight against e-mail-borne virus attacks.

By Melanie Turek, Principal Research Analyst, Nemertes Research Messaging Pipeline 10/07/04

A majority of IT executives surveyed in Nemertes Research's recent benchmark study complained about the time it takes for their anti-virus software to detect and alert them to a new virus outbreak. That makes finding methods that can shrink that time a top priority for the enterprise IT community.

Recent product announcements by two anti-virus vendors attempt to address that priority. The iSolation Server announced this week by Avinti Inc. sits between the enterprise firewall, spam and virus filters, and the enterprise e-mail server. The new company's product moves every e-mail with an attachment or a hyperlink to a web page over to a virtual computer which opens and executes the attachment or link. Then; if the behavior is that of a virus or a worm, the e-mail is quarantined.

Two weeks ago, IronPort announced its new Virus Outbreak Filters, which look for patterns of behavior in e-mail messages that suggest a group of messages may represent a virus attack. The system then alerts Symantec, its anti-virus partner, of the possible threat. Avinti says it's working on similar notifications.

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