The first Service Pack for Microsoft's Antigen server-level security solution is now available for download. Antigen is a product offered as part of the Forefront Security family aimed at the server-side and delivering a combination of an antivirus, anti-spam and also content filtering capabilities set up to protect email and collaboration servers. With the Microsoft Antigen 9.0. Antigen Service Pack 1 update, users will be able to benefit from additional features such as globalization. In addition, the security solution, following the introduction of SP1 brings to the table improved support for clusters as well as the ability to analyze Office 2007 files.

"We've just released an update to Microsoft Antigen 9.0. Antigen server-level antivirus, anti-spam, and content-filtering products are part of the Microsoft Forefront Security product family. Microsoft Forefront Security for Exchange Server and Microsoft Forefront Security for SharePoint are the latest server security products and are designed to protect the most recent releases of Microsoft's messaging and collaboration platforms: Microsoft Exchange Server 2007, Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007, and Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services 3.0", explained David Burt, Product Manager, Communications Forefront Security.

As far as Antigen is concerned, the Redmond company places strong emphasis on the fact that the security solution is based on multiple scan engines at multiple layers in order to offer protection. At this time, the company is offering a 30-day trial of Antigen 9.0 SP1 which comes with for Exchange 9.0, Antigen for SMTP Gateways 9.0 and Antigen Spam Manager 9.0.

"With multiple engine protection for Exchange Server 2003 and Exchange 2000 Server environments, Microsoft Antigen 9.0 with SP1 now provides: enhanced cluster support; scanning of Office 2007 file formats and globalization. The Antigen 9.0 SP1 release includes Antigen for Exchange, Antigen for SMTP Gateways and Antigen Spam Manager", Burt added.