Mailprotector seeks out email vulnerabilities that hide destructive viruses & malware.

Dynamic Vulnerability Analysis

Vulnerabilities are security weaknesses or flaws in a program. As they relate to email security, there are two types of vulnerabilities: Email Client Vulnerabilities and Email Server Vulnerabilities.

Vulnerability laden emails are mal-formed messages that take advantage of the email client or servers weakness. Typical email virus protection scanning can generally catch email client vulnerabilities; however, it is oblivious to the server's email vulnerability. Therefore, vulnerability laden messages can allow viruses to bypass email server anti-virus scanning altogether.

They do this in a number of ways, but primarily they allow a virus to hide in the headers of a message during scanning yet become visible to the email client. In many cases, these mal-formed messages can also allow the virus to run on the user's workstation without any intervention from the user, and certainly no detection by their email filter.

Email virus protection is useless without vulnerability detection. Because of the completely undeterminable payload of vulnerability-laden messages and the potential threat level, Mailprotector treats vulnerabilities as viruses and destroys them.

Mailprotector is one of the very few Email Security Applications on the market today that includes this vital level of protection.