Note: The additional pricing is a one-year subscription that depends on the solution(s) chosen and the number of mailboxes. Each solution is unique and the combination offers a strong detection solution.įigure 1: The Virus Scanning Engines screen in the GFI MailEssentials web-based UI. There is an email blocklist, an IP DNS blocklist, a URI DNS blocklist, a Greylist filter (which temporarily blocks email from unknown senders so they are neither black nor white, but “grey”) and a Whitelist. These all combine to provide solid protection against most (almost all) spam.Ī Potential 5 Engine Anti-Virus Solution: New viruses are released all the time and signature updates are released by vendors for their engines at varying speeds. To better protect yourself you can utilize multiple engines to increase your chances of getting the latest signature defense. Out of the box MailEssentials offers protection through VIPRE anti-virus protection and BitDefender anti-virus (with a one year subscription included as part of the initial fee for the solution). However, with an additional license purchase you can utilize Kapersky, Norman and McAfee anti-virus solutions (shown in Figure 1). Spam Filtering Lists: Part of the anti-spam filtering features is a combination of lists. VBSpam-Certified for Spam Protection: VBSpam is an independent verification test that has GFI ranking pretty high when comparing spam catch rate and false positive rate. One of the keys to its success is combining multiple anti-spam filtering engines and techniques (I counted 11 including engines and lists like SpamRazer, Bayesian analysis, Directory Harvesting, anti-phishing and more). Let’s take a look at a subset of the feature list: In keeping with that theme, MailEssentials attempts to eliminate spam and protect your network from viruses by providing multiple filtering engines (up to 5 antivirus options and a variety of different spam engines and filtering choices). If I had to sum up the product in one sentence it would be “why choose one protective solution, when you can have many?” GFI’s MailEssentials is actually offered as both, a hosted solution called MailEssentials Online™ (which has only a subset of the full products features) and a server-based solution called MailEssentials. There are a variety of different solutions that range from an online hosted filtering system to keeping it in-house and going with Microsoft options or a third-party solution. Time is money. It carries with it malware or phishing scams or links to inappropriate sites and the list goes on. It wastes our user’s time if it makes it into their Inbox. Spam, in a word, sucks. We all know it, let’s be adult about it. We need to do whatever we can to keep it out of our environment.
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