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Email Virus/ Spam Filter

Email Virus/ Spam Trends

Spam now represents more than 50% of all emails, spammers are finding cleverer ways of penetrating your filters, and worms are being used to upload keyboard loggers onto your users' PCs. The number of viruses created each week is increasing. In response, equipment manufacturers and developing more powerful spam and virus filter applications and devices, and integrating these into firewalls and other network security appliances. Unfortunately, high security has a direct impact on performance. Your email filter can become your network bottleneck!

 

NetworkTester -- An Integrated Solution

By taking an integrated approach to testing, the Agilent NetworkTester accelerates your development or deployment of email spam/virus filters and integrated security appliances.

The NetPressure application covers all your network security and content networking test needs:

  • Transaction variability features, such as the String Editor, make it easy to emulate large quantities of spam with dynamically varying content.
  • Test the performance of your virus filter with powerful and flexible Client Profiles, which let you emulate both legitimate email and email containing virus attachments.
  • Scale the test up easily to reach the limits of the email filter. Watch how the device slows to a near-halt under a spam assault. Don't let your users experience email meltdown!

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