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06 May 2010

BitDefender receives second highest final score in April�s testing period

BitDefender�, an award-winning provider of innovative anti-malware security solutions,today announced that BitDefender Security for Mail Servers 3.0.2 has achieved its seventh VBSpam Award in a row, in the latest Virus Bulletin Anti-Spam Comparative Review. Designed for Linux servers, Security for Mail Servers 3.0.2 achieved the VB verified distinction for its low false positive rate coupled with its high spam catch rate.

Linux products were tested on a SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 for a period of 20 days. The email corpus consisted of all emails sent to several Virus Bulletin email addresses, mixed with a spam stream provided by Project Honey Pot. Emails from both sources were sent through the products in real-time. Additionally, the test messages were in multiple language and character sets, including English, French, Asian languages, Russian, Dutch, Norwegian and others.

Participating in every edition since the beginning of the Virus Bulleting Spam Tests, BitDefender Security for Mail Servers 3.0.2 caught 99.55% of the spam messages in the test, with a false positive rate of only 0.14%, misclassifying only three legit messages and achieved the second highest final score in this test among other twenty products.

�We are very pleased to receive our seventh VBSpam Award for BitDefender Security for Mail Servers 3.0.2, rounding out Virus Bulletin�s first year of testing with an award for each test performed throughout the year�, said Catalin Cosoi, BitDefender Senior Researcher. �This award represents our dedication to quality product performance, something to which we constantly strive to improve. Having won yet another VBSpam Award further solidifies this dedication and commitment to excellence�.

For the last year BitDefender Security for Mail Servers 3.0.2 has successfully used a new technology called LiveQuery. Stemming from the cloud-computing paradigm, this technology provides an immediate response time and protection to users all over the world, regardless of language or what type of spam they receive. With this technology, when a new email arrives, it is first scanned locally with proprietary, proactive antispam solutions. If it passes the initial filtering sequence and still cannot be categorized as spam or legit, a proprietary algorithm extracts key elements from the analyzed mail and creates something similar to a unique encrypted fingerprint of that message. If the BitDefender network of servers finds a match in its databases of known spam fingerprints, it issues a block command to the client application.

To view the results of this test please visit, http://www.virusbtn.com/vbspam/results/index, and register. For more information regarding BitDefender Business Solutions, please click here.

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