Q4 2007 Email Threats Trend Report

Zombie botnets come of age

This January 2008 report from Proofpoint and Commtouch reviews the new techniques that virus writers used to deploy their malicious software during Q4 2007. Computer viruses, which grew progressively more virulent over the course of 2007, posed an overwhelming threat to less sophisticated forms of anti-virus protection. Botnets kept global spam levels high averaging 80%, with Storm worm, address validation spam, image based spam, surveillance spam, and holiday spam leading the attacks on networks.

Download this free report and learn about the rapidly changing state of malware distribution and why signature-based anti-virus protection alone cannot fully protect today's enterprise.

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About Proofpoint Zero-Hour Anti-Virus

The Proofpoint Zero-Hour Anti-Virus™ module, a component of the Proofpoint Messaging Security Gateway™ and Proofpoint Protection Server®, protects enterprises against new viruses and other forms of malicious code during the critical first hours after new viruses are released and before anti-virus signatures have been updated.

To protect large organizations from emerging virus attacks, Proofpoint Zero-Hour Anti-Virus combines global analysis of Internet traffic patterns with local containment of suspicious messages and attachments.

Proofpoint Zero-Hour Anti-Virus constantly analyzes millions of Internet messages for anomalies that indicate a potential virus attack. Advanced pattern recognition technology is used to identify new viruses within minutes of their mass distribution over the internet with greater than 95% accuracy.

At the customer’s site, Proofpoint Zero-Hour Anti-Virus analyzes incoming messages for similarities with suspected virus messages. Messages and attachments that exhibit recurrent pattern characteristics of the emerging virus are automatically quarantined at the enterprise gateway where they can be held until the availability of a production-ready virus signature.

Learn more about protecting your enterprise from zero-hour threats by downloading this free whitepaper from Proofpoint, Inc.