SUBANG JAYA: Local network security firm Extol Corporation Sdn Bhd has launched Armour GateSecure, a mail gateway scanner that prohibits viruses, worms and other malware (malignant software) from entering the network.

The new product, developed by its in-house research and development team, routes incoming e-mail from the �demilitarised zone� (DMZ) to the gateway scanner (GateSecure) for prior scanning of e-mail attachments.

It also works reversibly, the company (www.extol.com.my/) said in a statement, scanning outgoing e-mail, cleaning virus attachments if any, and adding a disclaimer note to the messages, as set by the administrator.

GateSecure has a 99.9% detection rate of viruses in the wild, Extol claimed. It also has content filtering capabilities that enable basic content filtering options like setting mail group configurations, message and/ or disclaimer attachments to outgoing mail, spam mail filtering, address blocking for in-coming and out-going mail, as well as blocking certain file extension attachments (like .jpeg, .exe, .vbs, and so on).

GateSecure is an appliance, and it runs parallel to other antiviruses and does not require any special hardware, Extol claimed.