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23 anti-spam solutions win VBSpam award
November 2011 by Marc Jacob
VB announces VBSpam anti-spam certification results
Virus Bulletin, the independent security certification body, has announced that 23 solutions entered into its latest round of comparative anti-spam testing earned VBSpam certification.
The most impressive results were achieved by OnlyMyEmail, Mailshell and BitDefender, all of which demonstrated very high spam catch rates without misclassifying any of the 5,000+ legitimate emails sent during the test period. The performances of IBM Lotus Protector and Anubis Networks were also impressive.
VB’s Anti-Spam Test Director Martijn Grooten said: "After a decline at the beginning of this year, spam levels have been more or less constant for some months now, showing that it continues to be a significant problem. Spammers also continue to look for new ways to evade filters and thus it was worrying to see a drop in some products’ spam catch rate, while others incorrectly blocked a number of legitimate emails. However, there were also several products that combined a very good spam catch rate with few to no false positives; those deserve full praise."
The VBSpam quadrant plots products’ spam catch rate against their false positive rate, with the top right-hand corner the area products should be aiming for (with maximum spam catch rate and minimum false positive rate). The front-runners in this test can clearly be seen from their positions on the quadrant at http://www.virusbtn.com/vbspam/char... (journals and websites are permitted to reproduce this chart unedited).
The results of the November 2011 anti-spam comparative review can be seen at http://www.virusbtn.com/vbspam/arch...
The full review, including detailed results tables, is available to Virus Bulletin subscribers or can be purchased as a standalone review ($19.95) from http://www.virusbtn.com/vbspam/arch...
