MailDefender Virus Protection - service detail.

You've heard the expression 'closing the stable door after the horse has bolted'. Yet most anti-virus software is designed to be updated only on a daily or weekly basis. Allowing even a few hours to elapse after a new virus has been let loose is like leaving the stable door wide open. Protection after the event is no protection at all.

With MailDefender your protection from computer viruses is automatically updated every five minutes. And because MailDefender sits on the Internet not on your own hardware, this constant updating takes place with absolutely no impact on your network processing speed or the amount of traffic on your Internet connection.

For double protection, MailDefender anti-virus utilises both intY's heuristic intYscan anti-virus scanner and the renowned Sophos anti-virus engine.

Sophos is the UK's number one provider of corporate anti-virus solutions, used by over 60% of FTSE 100 companies.

With over 20 million users worldwide and a team of developers and virus experts working around the clock, Sophos tracks down every new virus and adds its particular characteristics, its 'signature', to the Sophos database of barred signatures.

To provide still greater protection, intYscan is also used to search for tell-tale signs that an e-mail might contain a virus that is so new it has yet to be registered even on the Sophos database.

By double-checking for both known and suspected viruses MailDefender provides all-round protection from e-mail borne infection.

Benefits

• up-to-date without the fuss - MailDefender's virus signatures are updated every 5 minutes automatically
• maximum protection - complements desktop anti-virus protection
• stops viruses before they stop you - proactive scanning identifies infected emails before they are sent or received from the network
• grows with your business - because there is no locally required infrastructure, increasing the number of users on the system requires no set-up and no fuss

MailDefender anti-virus does all of the following:

• scans all inbound and outbound e-mail for known viruses
• scans all inbound and outbound e-mail for potential viruses
• blocks all infected and suspect e-mail
• checks for updates from Sophos every five minutes
• quarantines all infected and suspect e-mail at the Internet level, away from your network, reducing still further any risk of infection
• notifies sender and recipient of quarantined inbound e-mails
• notifies sender only of quarantined outbound e-mails (avoids unnecessarily alerting contacts to potential infection from which they have been protected)
• works seamlessly with your network infrastructure - requires no downtime to set up (service can be activated within 48 hours)
• involves you with no software, no hardware, no maintenance
• includes optional management reporting tool, providing e-mail statistics for each domain to help system administrators identify virus hotspots
• MailDefender isn't only the most advanced Internet-level anti-virus solution available it is also equally adept at stopping spam from being transmitted to your network.