RSSMicrosoft Releases Business Antivirus
By Nate Mook | Published June 6, 2006, 4:40 PM
Microsoft on Tuesday took the wraps off its Antigen lineup of security products for e-mail, which include antivirus and anti-spam protection that the Redmond company acquired from Sybari Software in 2005. Four offerings will initially make up the Microsoft Antigen brand.
Antigen for Exchange integrates into Exchange Server 2003 and 2000 to stop viruses and other malicious content from reaching a corporate network, as well as containing internal outbreaks. Antigen for SMTP Gateways provides similar features for Windows Server systems running a mail server.
Antigen Spam Manager offers anti-spam and content filtering services to both Windows Server and Exchange Server setups. Microsoft is offering all three utilities in a single package called Antigen Messaging Security Suite.
Antigen Enterprise Manager, meanwhile, provides a centralized application for managing Antigen-enabled servers. From there, administrators can configure settings and setup content filtering rules. Microsoft is additionally making available a management pack plug-in for Microsoft Operations Manager 2005.
All of the Antigen products utilize multiple scanning engines from companies including AhnLab, Authentium, CA, Kaspersky Lab, MailFilters.com, Norman Data Defense Systems, Sophos and VirusBuster. Microsoft has also bolstered the products with its new in-house anti-virus engine, which it acquired from GeCAD Software in 2003.
Microsoft's anti-virus engine made its first appearance last week in Windows OneCare, which is now available from retail outlets and online.
A three-month trial license for the Antigen e-mail security products is now available from Microsoft. The products will begin shipping on July 1. Antigen for Sharepoint and Antigen for Instant Messaging will remain Sybari-branded products until the next versions are released in the first half of 2007.
Glad to see that nobody has fixed the link yet.
*knock knock knock* Anybody home?
I sent an email to Nate Mook too and still nothing.
Seems as if something funny is going on at Betanews. :-)
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This is a brilliant business decision on Microsoft's part. Now they can rush an unfinished and unsecure OS to market, overcharge for it, and then profit from all the security holes.
I'm going to buy some Microsoft stock immediately.
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Indeed, that is the problem underlying the tool. The polluter sells anti-pollution devices. But I guess most customers do not get it, so Microsoft gets away with it.
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I got this:
https://thesource.ofalle...using/RSS/aggregate.xml
When I clicked on the "three-month trial license"
The Source of All evil?
Real nice.
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They're actually *SELLING* IT????? SCUMBAGS.
Thank goodness for the heroes of this age: reverse-engineers a.k.a... crackers.
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Why wouldn't they sell it?
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why does the download link for the 3 month trial go to:
https://www.netscum.dk/d...using/RSS/aggregate.xml
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The link now goes to http://wwwppe/antigen/downloads/trial-software.mspx
Is someone incompetent? Why is the domain name incomplete?
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Not only that but the certificate is bad too.
How dumb.
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Looks like Microsoft wisely kept Sybari's multiple antivirus engines.
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Let the bidding wars begin. While I give trend a B for it's service to us over the past 5 years, I'm anxious to try MS's product at significant savings.
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ONLY a "B"? Tell me ONE enterprise antivirus that is better than Trend?
I grant you, they aren't perfect, but FAR better than anyone else out there.
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Just because they're better doesn't get 'em an 'A'. (unless you grade on a curve, which is just. plain. wrong.)
Even the best can improve some. As you said, they aren't perfect.
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"ONLY a "B"? Tell me ONE enterprise antivirus that is better than Trend?"
Try telling that to the clowns in charge of the network I support. According to them Symantec AV is the way to go. Now 3 years later what are they looking at??? Trend.
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