Telkom`s firewall has fought off the onslaught of the destructive MyDoom virus for its TelkomInternet customers, demonstrating the effectiveness of its technology.
TelkomInternet reported today that it had quarantined 502 768 virus-infected e-mail messages since 26 January. Of these, 464 503 were infected with the MyDoom virus.
Craig Medefindt, Product Specialist for TelkomInternet, said: ``TelkomInternet has once again come to the rescue of its customers fearful of virus-infected e-mails. Telkom`s Internet tools, such as anti-virus and spam filtering, block destructive data, as in the case of the Sobig.F bug last year.
``TelkomInternet tools, which are supplied free as part of the package, come in handy as Internet users the world over battle cyber attacks. TelkomInternet operates a blocking system through qmail scanner, which provides plug-in anti-virus and anti-spam capabilities to the Telkom Internet mail system," Medefindt said.
This is based on the Open-Source Clam virus scanner and the Open Anti-Virus database, with virus definitions being automatically updated every 12 hours from the global threat database, or manually at any time if a new threat is identified.
Customers experiencing difficulties can contact the TelkomInternet technical support centre on 0860 00 8700.
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