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Content Compliance – These features help administrators enforce corporate
policies, reduce legal liability, and ensure compliance with regulatory
requirements.
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Group policies and filter policies – An easy-to-use authoring tool lets
administrators create powerful, flexible ad hoc filters for users and groups.
New features
The following table lists the features that have been added to this version of
Symantec Mail Security:
Table 1-1
New features for Symantec Mail Security (all users)
Description
Features
Category
Protects against directory-harvest attacks,
denial-of-service attacks, spam attacks, and virus
attacks.
Improved email
firewall
Threat
protection
features
Protects against phishing attacks, using the Sender
Policy Framework (SPF), Sender ID, or both.
Sender
Authentication
Additional virus verdicts protect against suspected
viruses, spyware, and adware and quarantine
messages with suspicious encrypted attachments.
Email messages that may contain viruses can be
delayed in the Suspect Virus Quarantine, then
refiltered, with updated virus definitions, if available.
This feature tcan be effective in defeating virus
attacks before conventional signatures are available.
View a list of available virus-definition updates.
Improved virus
protection
Automatically detects file types without relying on
file name extensions or MIME types.
True file type
recognition for
content compliance
filtering
Inbound
and
outbound
content
controls
Scan within attachments to find keywords from
dictionaries you create or edit. Specify a number of
occurrences to look for.
Keywords filtering
within attachments,
keyword frequency
filtering
Use regular expressions to further customize filter
conditions by searching within messages and
attachments.
Regular expression
filtering
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