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GFI MailSecurity named Editors' Choice 2002 - MCP
Magazine reviewer David W. Tschanz selected GFI MailSecurity
for Exchange/SMTP in a bundle with GFI MailEssentials for
Exchange/SMTP as the winner of the publication's Editor's
Choice award 2002 in the Exchange Anti-Virus category.
Read the full review (PDF format).
- Microsoft Certified Professional
Magazine, December 2002 |
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An innovative security solution - In an article on
effective protection from computer viruses, the German
financial newspaper Handelsblatt highlighted the importance
of blocking email attacks. Stressing that preventive
measures on the network level are as important as protection
on desktop level, the newspaper presented GFI MailSecurity
for Exchange as an innovative security solution.
- Handelsblatt, 4 November 2002 |
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Perfect
performance - Virus Bulletin technical consultant Matt
Ham put GFI MailSecurity through its paces and reported that
"within the limits of the tests performed, GFI MailSecurity
performed perfectly". He found the product documentation to
be "of good quality" and concluded his extensive product
review by predicting that GFI MailSecurity's exploit
checking function "might be a good forewarning of what is to
come".
- Virus Bulletin, September 2002 |
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Killing
viruses at server level - InfoWorld's Test Center Report
recommends that: "Viruses should be killed before they ever
get to the desktop with tools such as GFI MailSecurity,
which performs content monitoring and protects Exchange and
SMTP mail against viruses, malicious code, and worms at the
server level."
- InfoWorld, August 2002 |
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"Cool"
defense tool against email threats - In a write-up for
New Order, the resource for security admins, reviewer
nitrate2k says of GFI MailSecurity, "this little package is
damn cool... Security software is never supposed to be this
easy to install. It is normal to spend hours getting the
right configuration, until you are sure that it is exactly
what you need. But when I began the installation, it was
completed within 5 minutes." He was also impressed by GFI
MailSecurity's ability to deliver email security as
promised: "I found GFI MailSecurity to be a useful defense
tool against exactly what they say - viruses, exploits, and
threats... I recommend giving it a try."
- New Order, 12 August 2002 |
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"Great
anti-virus protection at your gateway" - "GFI's
MailSecurity offloads much of the anti-virus heavy-lifting
to an anti-virus application that protects the email
gateway," wrote Wayne Rash in his regular IT security
column, adding that it offers "great anti-virus protection
at your gateway". His article, entitled "One is not enough",
focused on GFI's white paper about the value of using
multiple virus engines simultaneously.
- ZDNet Tech Update, 7 August 2002 |
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Security
beyond the firewall - An article written for
NetworkWorld by the independent testing lab, Miercom -
entitled "Looking for security beyond firewalls" - reports
that GFI MailSecurity for Exchange/SMTP detected all the
viruses thrown at it during testing, including a legacy
virus and its variant, which some other products failed to
block. The article describes how GFI MailSecurity was one of
the few products tested by the labs to support more than one
anti-virus scanning engine, "offering the ability to
multiply the user's chance of catching viruses on one engine
that could be missed on another".
- NetworkWorld, 27 July 2002 |
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"Your email is safe with GFI MailSecurity"
- PC Magazine (Italy) described GFI MailSecurity as a
powerful anti-virus solution and email firewall which offers
greater security than other products in the same category.
The reviewer was particularly impressed with the product's
multiple virus scanners, its exploit engine and its HTML
script defuser.
- PC Magazine (It), July/August 2002 |
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An email firewall worth having - In a comprehensive
review on Swynk.com, Dan DiNicolo highly recommends GFI
MailSecurity: "While many products claim to be able to
protect your mail servers, I still haven’t seen anything as
comprehensive and as easy to use as GFI MailSecurity for
Exchange/SMTP. Think of how much time and money your company
spent over the last two years battling various viruses,
worms, and malicious content. Then think about how much
easier your life would have been if you had software that
was automatically quarantining any virus-infected or
potentially malicious files before they ever reached your
users. With pricing starting at $295, the time and energy
saved by GFI MailSecurity will certainly pay for itself many
times over."
- Swynk.com, May 2002 |
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GFI MailSecurity awarded ICSA certification - GFI
MailSecurity has been awarded anti-virus certification from
ICSA Labs. The certification provides independent
confirmation that the email security product protects
networks against email viruses.
- ICSA Labs, May 2002 |
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GFI
MailSecurity for Exchange/SMTP named Editor's Choice -
SoftLandmark, one of India's top download sites, has awarded
GFI MailSecurity for Exchange/SMTP five stars and named it
Editor's Pick.
- SoftLandmark, May 2002 |
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"It's like
having more than one guard at the gate" - Security News
Portal was impressed with GFI MailSecurity's multi-layered
approach to email security: "Basically this is a cool
concept: it is like placing three or four different guards
at your front email gate... if one guard doesn't catch
something, then maybe the next guard or the guard after that
will catch it."
- SecurityNewsPortal.com, April 2002 |
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GFI MailSecurity awarded Checkmark - GFI
MailSecurity has been awarded Anti-Virus Checkmark Level 1
certification from West Coast Labs. The certification
ensures that GFI MailSecurity meets the Checkmark program’s
rigorous standards for detecting in-the-wild viruses.
- West Coast Labs, April 2002 |
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GFI MailSecurity named Microsoft Tech Ed 2002 Best of Show
finalist – GFI MailSecurity is a finalist for the
Tech Ed Best of Show Awards conducted by SQL Server Magazine
and Windows & .NET Magazine.
- Windows & .NET Magazine, March 2002
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An "ideal" add-on product for Exchange Server -
Reviewing GFI MailSecurity on MSExchange.org, technical
writer Will Schmied described the product as providing "an
ideal amount of functionality". He praised GFI MailSecurity
for its "robust virus scanning features", the way it
"effectively scans and isolates unwanted or potentially
harmful attachments at the gateway to the enterprise" and
its "easy-to- use interface". He concluded: "The licensing
prices are quite reasonable, and... it’s well worth the
additional money above what you’ve already got invested in
your Windows 2000/Exchange 2000 set-up."
- MSExchange.org, March 2002 |
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GFI
MailSecurity "gobbles" all threats to your email security
- MCP Magazine's verdict on GFI MailSecurity for Exchange
2000 is: "It does perfectly what it was designed to do -
identify, hunt and kill anything that looks like a threat to
email security with the quiet relentlessness and
thoroughness of white blood cells gobbling an intruder in
your bloodstream." The publication described GFI
MailSecurity as offering "completeness and ease of
operation" as well as being transparent to the user and
requiring "no training for users and little, if any,
additional administration beyond the initial set-up". MCP
Magazine added that: "Its antivirus engine scans all inbound
and outbound mail both internally and inter-company and can
quarantine or remove suspicious attachments. It can also be
configured to remove scripting code in the body of a
message. This can present a problem for forms included in
newsletters, for example, but that’s a small price to pay
for security. The nice thing about this feature is that it’s
not dependent on keeping a virus list up to date; it detects
and removes scripts regardless."
- MCPMag.com, January 2002 |
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Earlier reviews of GFI MailSecurity for
Exchange/SMTP, formerly known as GFI Mail essentials:
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Mail essentials "worth going for" - PC Pro reviewer
Jon Honeyball "unequivocally" recommends the use of GFI Mail
essentials, describing it as a "workable, stable and
straightforward product".
- PC Pro, January 2002 |
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GFI Mail essentials for Exchange 2000 named Security
Awards finalist in the 2001 Government Computer News Best
New Technology Awards competition
- Government Computer News - 13
March 2001 |
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Mail essentials for Exchange 2000 awarded Pick of 2001
(PDF format)
- Secure Computing Magazine - December
2001 |
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Mail essentials for Exchange awarded 5 stars
- Secure Computing Magazine, August 2001 |
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Mail essentials awarded InternetWorks Gold Award -
InternetWorks has awarded GFI Mail essentials the Gold
Award, describing it as being "well-written [and having]
excellent features". Reviewer Rob Fenwick wrote, "Overall,
it's a well-presented and flexible tool that we recommend to
any Exchange administrator who want to cut down on their
network admin".
- Internet Works, July 2001 |
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Mail essentials for Exchange 2000 awarded Product of the
Year 2000
- Communications Solutions Magazine
-January 2001 |
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Mail essentials for Exchange/SMTP awarded Pick of 2000
- Secure Computing Magazine - December
2000 |
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Combating 'stealth worms' like the Love Bug - GFI
made the front page of IT Week, which quoted GFI CEO Nick
Galea concerning the worry of hackers using a virus in a
targeted rather than mass market manner, to break into an
organization's database in an unobtrusive way. The
leading article in the Enterprise Week section of the
same edition highlighted the issue further and underlined
the need for an email firewall.
- IT Week - 15 May 2000 |
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Five-star review for GFI Mail essentials - SC
Magazine awarded Mail essentials 3.0 five stars for ease of
use, performance, documentation, support, and value for
money. In a review of GFI Mail essentials, SC Magazine was
highly impressed by the product.
- SC Magazine - March 2000 |
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Effective email protection against unsolicited,
inappropriate and proprietary content - "GFI Mail
essentials for Exchange is a cost-effective way to enforce a
corporate email policy... Capable of being administered
locally or remotely via the Exchange administrator, GFI Mail
essentials allows content checking for specific users by
integrating with the Exchange directory... GFI Mail
essentials includes several tools for protecting the
company's investment in email and proprietary information...
The auto-reply feature is a nice touch... GFI Mail
essentials provides a cost-effective compilation of tools to
help manage and protect company email." -
View PDF
- InfoWorld - January 2000 |
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Easy to use
Mail essentials is an "easy-to-use tool for managing
incoming and outgoing email, including virus scanning",
wrote PC Plus, awarding the product 8 out of 10.
- PC Plus Magazine - October 1999 |
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Protection from email viruses - "GFI Mail essentials
is a useful tool that helps companies ensure appropriate
communications over the Internet, preserving a positive
corporate image while protecting internal systems from email
viruses... This solution is more affordable than
competitors' products, such as Integralis' Mimesweeper,
Worldtalk's WorldSecure, and Elron Software's Message
Inspector... Administrators will find this product easy to
configure and use. GFI Mail essentials has the potential to
fit well into any size organization to protect email
invasion, monitor content, and reduce bandwidth."
- InfoWorld - August 1999 |
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"Essentially good protection" - "Mail essentials
detects the body text of the Explore Worm virus in email
messages and deletes the harmful message before it can reach
the mail server".
- Windows NT Magazine - June 1999 |
