WASHINGTON, Sept. 20 /PRNewswire/ -- When asked about the new Internet worm spreading across the Internet yesterday, Mason Stewart, President of GateKeeper LLC responded, "According to the latest reports, E-mail GateKeeper may be the only virus protection system requiring no patch, signature or update to protect clients from infection."
After reviewing Internet reports on this latest worm, Rob Hook, Gatekeeper LLC Technology Director commented: "from a real world point (whether arriving as a valid e-mail or from visiting an infected web site), this new worm arrives at our clients' systems as an unauthorized executable." E-mail GateKeeper does not allow unauthorized executables to get past its system and on to the client regardless of how they arrive," and, as such, the Nimda worm never infects the client. "Our system protects its users from ALL e-mail viruses." Noting that most clients do not share network drives with strangers, Hook further indicated that the disk sharing infection path (absent an initial e-mail infection) is also effectively neutralized.
Mr. Hook emphasized that the real problem with this worm is that "once it gets into a system, it is going to be extremely difficult, costly and time consuming to eradicate."
Given the rate that these new viruses are being developed an enterprise that relies on receiving up-to-date virus signatures to ensure computer protection may soon find itself using almost all of its computers' available time just downloading virus signature files. Sooner or later, real productivity will suffer. Consider the irony of actually being required to constantly expose your company's vital computer systems to potentially unsecure channels on the Internet as a requirement to keeping your computers secure!
Even enterprises who had the latest updates and signatures were not protected. Insult was added to injury while these enterprises, already suffering from significant lost time and productivity, were down for even longer waiting for the traditional virus protection systems to create a viable Nimda inoculation.
Stewart adds, "That is why we developed the E-mail GateKeeper virus protection system. It totally eliminates this burdensome risk, without any impact to a client's access to authorized e-mail."
For more information, please visit http://www.emailgatekeeper.com/.
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