Beta release of Anti-Virus for SMTP gateways. (News and Products).

The beta release of the Kaspersky Anti-Virus for SMTP gateways offers customers the opportunity of embedding a centralized anti-virus scanning for e-mail independent of the type of server being used. Kaspersky Anti-Virus for SMTP gateways is a software system administering an anti-virus scanning of all incoming and outgoing SMTP traffic. The system is setup between the external environment and the internal e-mail server, cleaning up malicious code of all types from the passing streams, and also preventing DoS-attacks via SMTP. The program checks all sections of e-mail messages: attached files (including archived and compressed), the message body, and other messages on any nesting level. Kaspersky Anti-Virus also contains: a heuristic scanning engine that reliably - defends against future viruses; a - Web-based management console for remote control; modules for automatically updating the anti-virus database and generating statistic reports. Depending on the pre-set configuration, an infected message can be blo cked (quarantine feature), deleted or ignored for each of the existing e-mail boxes. In all of these cases, the system administrator, as well as the sender and recipient, can be sent notification via e-mail regarding the detection of an infected message. The fully functional product will be released in October.

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