Twice scanned is a whole lot safer

We have customers who choose not to first quarantine their spam emails, but simply receive them in their mail clients (of course marked accordingly). Yesterday afternoon our Head of Product Management, Bernhard Hecker, took a seat on the floor of my office and gave me the inside story on why this is not necessarily a good idea. Or rather, why it’s a much smarter move to use our practical quarantine digests. This is because Retarus E-Mail Security now also shifts messages into quarantine that at first only look like spam, but in fact also contain malware and viruses. For instance, a new variant of blackmail Trojan “Locky”. When such malware is freshly hatched it isn’t recognized by virus scanners immediately, meaning that customers who don’t divert spam to quarantine digests receive these messages  straight into their email clients.

After a while the scan engines have updated their signatures to deal with new threats. And as Retarus’ Managed Services check each message a second time with up to four virus scanners when they are downloaded from the quarantine digest, viruses that would previously have gone unrecognized can now be discovered and deleted automatically following the latest engine updates. This adds an extra level of security that no user would want to do without. Find out more about Retarus E-Mail Security here or directly from your local Retarus contact Person.