Virus Protection for Email

Astaro’s Virus Protection for Email application detects and blocks viruses in email traffic. It scans inbound and outbound email messages and email attachments carried over industry-standard email protocols (SMTP and POP3).

Virus Protection for Email employs multiple detection methods and a database of over 100,000 virus signatures to ensure high accuracy and excellent performance.

Dual Virus Scanning Engines

Astaro provides an extra margin of safety by including two virus scanning engines in sequence.

Virus detection technology and signature databases from the ClamAV Open Source project and from anti-virus industry leader Kaspersky Lab provide a double layer of protection.

Signature updates from ClamAV’s extensive user community, and from Kaspersky Lab’s renowned international antivirus research team, ensure that new malware threats are identified and blocked as soon as they appear.

High Accuracy

Astaro’s anti-virus utilizes three independent detection methods to catch the widest possible range of viruses:
Virus signatures: Email messages and attachments and web traffic are compared with known patterns contained in an extensive virus database.

Heuristics: Sophisticated rules detect patterns and behavior that resemble known classes of viruses.

Emulation: Suspicious code is executed in a protected environment, for example by unpacking archived files and by running scripts and macros.

Flexible Management

With Astaro’s Virus Protection for the Web, virus signatures can be updated automatically as often as hourly.

Administrators can:

• Select which file formats to block in
  email attachments.
• Select text strings to use to identify
  unwanted messages.
• Specify that questionable messages
  should be quarantined for later
  evaluation or dropped.

Reports and detailed logs help administrators troubleshoot and identify patterns of activity.

Complete Coverage

Astaro’s Virus Protection for Email can open and scan more than 700 formats of archived and compressed files. Hackers and virus writers can not use obscure formats or complex archiving programs to sneak viruses into internal networks.