Virus Protection of e-mail is one of the most important aspects when considering security issues related to your mail server. If your organization is infected by a virus, it can be a very time consuming and expensive process to eliminate the virus. Most business networks are infected by e-mail bourne viruses. Traditionally, antivirus software is run on each client computer and the virus is caught only when someone inadvertently opens an infected message. A more secure method is to prevent the virus from entering the network at all by catching it at the mail server as soon as it comes in.

Virus protection of e-mail in WorkgroupMail is achieved in conjunction with 3rd party antivirus software. WorkgroupMail can use the most popular antivirus software to check for the existense of a virus in a particular message. These include:

• Norton Antivirus (desktop edition)
• Norton Antivirus (corporate edition)
• McAfee VirusScan
• Sophos Antivirus
• Any other 3rd party software which provides a command line interface.

Virus protection is available either using content filtering or by using the Virus Protection plug-in. In either case, it is possible to specify which quarantine any infected messages should be sent to and which person should be notified, if any, on detection of a virus. When using content filtering to perform the virus checking, you have more flexibility over what to do when a virus is detected since all the content filtering actions are available to you.

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