Symantec integrated New Anti-Spam Technology

Symantec Announces Integration Of New Anti-Spam Technology In Mail Security And Antivirus Enterprise Edition Solutions

CUPERTINO, Calif. – Dec. 15, 2004 – Symantec Corp. (NASDAQ: SYMC), the global leader in information security, today announced Symantec Premium AntiSpam, an optional add-on subscription service for Symantec Mail Security and Symantec AntiVirus Enterprise Edition customers, scheduled to be available this month. Symantec Premium AntiSpam, powered by Brightmail technology and response, provides best-of-breed spam prevention without requiring additional administration or software installation.

Raising the bar for enterprise spam prevention, Symantec Premium AntiSpam add-on subscription service delivers the best combination of effectiveness and accuracy available in the market today. Multi-layered spam prevention leverages more than 20 filtering technologies, including spam signatures, heuristics, reputation filters, language identification and proprietary methods, with automatic updates occurring within every 10 minutes. The service enables organizations to achieve high detection rates of 95 percent and the industry’s highest accuracy rate against false positives (99.9999 percent), allowing users to safely delete spam without review. No new software or hardware is required, and the service requires no additional IT administration or tuning once deployed.

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