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  Trend InterScan Secures Top Virus-Protection Spot April 5, 1999 | ||
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Executive Summary: Gateway Virus Scanning Stopping a virus before it reaches your servers and desktop systems is the goal of gateway virus protection, which is fast becoming a viable means for protecting your network. Each of the three products we tested--Command Software Systems' m@ilCOMMAND 1.0_7, Symantec Corp.'s Norton AntiVirus for Internet Email Gateways 1.0.2 and Trend Micro's Trend InterScan VirusWall 3.1--boasts competent scanning capabilities for HTTP, FTP and SMTP traffic. However, our testing showed that these products share some basic weaknesses. None of the products we tested caught Macintosh or Linux viruses. In addition, platform support is uneven and the management controls are not as granular as we would like. Detection, performance and configurability were our key measurements in determining which of the three virus protection packages offered the best defense. Trend Micro's InterScan VirusWall earned our Editor's Choice award for its cutting-edge protection and for detecting more viruses than any other product. VirusWall was the only product we tested that was able to clean infected attachments. M@ilCOMMAND did a decent job detecting most of the viruses we sent through, but fell short on overall ease of use. We were greatly disappointed with Symantec's Norton AntiVirus--more than half of the test viruses we sent made it through the gateway. In the future, we'd like to see these products register higher overall "catch and clean" percentages. More robust management interfaces capable of generating detailed reports about current virus activity would also be a plus.
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