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Vexira Antivirus Stops Over 2.1 Million Viruses
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2004-09-27
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Newnan Utilities, an ISP in Georgia USA, protects over 17,000 email users from viruses using Vexira Antivirus for Linux.
Newnan Utilities in Georgia, USA has stopped over 2.1 million viruses from infecting over 17,000 customers using Vexira Antivirus for Linux.
Newnan Utilities offers a mix of traditional utilities and cutting-edge communication services to a wide range of businesses in Newnan and Coweta Counties, Georgia. Newnan Utilities has been serving its customers since 1891, with innovative, community-minded solutions.
"On May 3, 2004, after only 11 months of Vexira coverage, we stopped our millionth virus with Vexira on our customer mail server. Since that time, 20 weeks later, we've stopped over 1,100,000 more. In other words, in just 20 weeks we encountered as much virus traffic as we did over the entire previous year. At the peak Vexira Antivirus was stopping 177 viruses per minute and Vexira performed flawlessly the whole time," said Brian Collins, Systems Administrator, Newnan Utilities
"Vexira Antivirus is built for email infrastructures that need 99.999% uptime where email is a critical component to the operation. It is developed for large scale, high load email virus scanning by ISP's and other large organizations. We have found that being able to protect email users from viruses helps ISP's to reduce customer cancellations significantly," said Keith Peer, CEO, Central Command Inc.
Vexira Antivirus is a scalable and cost effect Linux antivirus solution developed to eliminate the email virus problem with its resilient and dependable operation. It is supported 24/7/365 by knowledgeable support staff familiar with large-scale email installations.
Features of Vexira Antivirus include:
- Virus scans all in-bound and out-bound email
- Processes high volumes of email
- Heuristic virus detection
- Full automatic update of scan engine and virus definition file
- Detection of malformed messages
Supported operating systems x86 (IA32): Linux, FreeBSD and OpenBSD
Supported Linux distributions: Redhat, Red Flag, SuSE, Debian, Gentoo, Mandrake, Slackware
Supported email applications: Sendmail, Postfix, Qmail, Exim
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