Dr.WEB anti-spam beta-version released

Doctor Web, Ltd. announces the beta-testing of the new product protecting Windows workstations from viruses and unsolicited mail (spam). The mail filtering module SpIDer Mail® now integrates a spam filter based on Vade Retro® technology from Goto Software, a French company with more than 5 year experience in anti-spam development.

All users willing to try the new functionality of Dr.Web anti-virus can register as beta-testers at Dr.Web web-site and explore the advantages of the spam-filtering technology. SpIDer Mail, being as always light, efficient and transparent to the user, is now integrated with Vade Retro anti-spam filter, thus protecting the client's mailbox from not just dangerous but from unsolicited mails as well.

The anti-spam module has several advantages.

* The unique technology allowing to detect up to 97% of spam. Up to 80% of unsolicited e-mails are filtered by headers only, which increases substantially its productivity and decreases dependency of the anti-spam technology on the language of the message;
* compact anti-spam module – the size of the Dr.Web distribution size became heavier by 1 MB only;
* easy settings which can be understood even by computer beginners;
* ability to filter mail traffic immediately after it is installed and enabled, without any previous teaching of the anti-spam;
* support of POP3 and IMAP;
* independence from any mail client.

An anti-spam solution has been long awaited by many of Dr.Web users. To meet the market requirements, finding a good anti-spam technology was not enough. It was really important to assure the cooperation with a professional team which would guarantee a continuous customers support, with a real-time reaction to numerous spammers tricks. It was also important to keep a certain technological balance with a newly integrated technology to preserve some specific trends of Dr.Web Anti-virus - compactness, simplicity, high technology level, computer resource sparing. Integration of the Vade Retro anti-spam technology into Dr.Web Anti-virus for Windows did not break this balance.

"We plan to come out shortly with a highly efficient anti-spam solution based on Dr.Web for Windows workstations. The results of the internal testing of Vade Retro technology, both on servers and client stations proved that our choice to establish a strategic partnership with Goto Software was the right one, - commented Boris Sharov, the CEO of Doctor Web, Ltd. - The agreement we have recently signed with the French company allows us to use the unique Vade Retro technology in practically all Dr.Web products designed to protect E-mail messaging. We are sure that our users will appreciate the high technology level of this anti-spam, the original approach to spam detection issue, the speed of reaction of the French team to new waves of spam. What is the most important for us is that we saw in the French team a truly professional attitude to the work they are dedicated to and their ability to promptly act in their customers' interests."