Trend Micro has announced a trio of antivirus and content scanning
products for gateways, groupware and servers at the LinuxWorld
Conference and Expo in San Francisco this week.
Such security products are needed on Linux because as use of the
operating system grows, so too does the likelihood of more viruses
and exploits targeting Linux systems, said Richard Ku, product
group manager at Trend Micro, which is based in Tokyo.
The first new product from Trend is a Linux version of its
InterScan VirusWall software for Internet gateways.
The software, which runs on Internet gateways running SMTP (Simple
Mail Transfer Protocol), HTTP (Hypertext Transfer Protocol) and FTP
(File Transfer Protocol), offers virus and content scanning for
inbound and outbound network traffic, as well as optional filters
for spam, Ku said. It is already available online, and is supported
on the Red Hat, SuSE, and Turbolinux distributions of Linux, Ku
said. Pricing for the software was not immediately available.
Trend also announced ScanMail for Lotus Notes running on IBM's
Domino server. ScanMail for Lotus Notes provides antivirus and
content scanning for systems running Lotus Notes on the Domino
server platform, as well as offering administrators e-mail policy
features, bandwidth management tools and more, he said. ScanMail
for Lotus Notes will be available at the end of the month and runs
on the Red Hat, SuSE and Turbolinux distributions. Pricing was not
immediately available.
Lastly, the company took the wraps off Server Protect for Linux, an
antivirus and content scanning tool for fileservers running Linux.
The product offers the same antivirus and content scanning features
as its siblings and runs on the same Linux distributions, Ku said.
Pricing for Server Protect for Linux was also not available.
The release of the three Linux products signals the extension of
Trend's Enterprise Protection Strategy (EPS) to the Linux platform,
Ku said.
The Enterprise Protection Strategy is a suite of services designed
to help users protect their networks during virus outbreaks but
before antivirus signatures are available, as well as clean up
after outbreaks. Some of the EPS services are launched from server
or gateway software, rather than through a management console, and
thus require those applications in order to support the services.