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Protecting your network against email threats: How to block email viruses and attacks

Overview This white paper describes various methods used by email viruses and worms to penetrate a protected network. Such methods include attachment files containing harmful code, social engineering attacks, crafted MIME headers, malicious use of HTML Script and similar technologies. A URL is provided where you can test whether your email system is vulnerable to threats like these. This document also examines the ways through which email can be sanitized and filtered of malicious code using GFI's email content/exploit checking and anti-virus solution based on Microsoft's virus scanning API (VS API), GFI MailSecurity for Exchange/SMTP.

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Publisher	GFI Software	File Format	HTML
Date Published	July 2003	Downloads	15
Format	White Papers
Topics	Application Security Tools

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