MessageLabs Hosted Email AntiVirus Service


Email AntiVirus Protection

MessageLabs Hosted Email AntiVirus Service protects your business from known and unknown email viruses. Our multi-layered, Internet-level email virus protection service stops viruses before they reach your network, helping your business avoid costs like system down-time, lost productivity and brand damage. We can also help protect your company from phishing scams, Trojans, worms and other forms of email based malware.

Our Email AntiVirus filter service is compatible with any SMTP compliant mail servers including: Exchange Server, GroupWise, Lotus Notes-Domino, providing a cost effective, easy to manage email AntiVirus filtering solution. Enhance your email security by adding our Email Anti-Spam filter, and effectively block spam and known and unknown viruses simultaneously.

Why use our Hosted Email AntiVirus service?

Whether you’re a small to mid-size business or a large enterprise organization, our Email AntiVirus solution is scalable to fit the needs of any size business. Providing a service level agreement to protect against 100% known and zero-hour (unknown) email viruses before they reach your network. It requires no hardware, no installation, and no ongoing upgrades or maintenance.

Your challenge: MessageLabs Hosted AntiVirus Service: Results:
Reducing the risk of email based virus infection Uses multi-layered filtering Your network is kept safe with zero-hour protection from known and unknown email viruses
Follows links embedded in messages Users can click on links without downloading viruses
Meeting the specific needs of your business Is fully configurable with a range of actions for identified viruses You can customize virus security settings to satisfy your policies
Ensure that everything is working Deliver one-click and scheduled reporting You can have confidence in the service's effectiveness, with reports to support it


As with all MessageLabs products, our hosted AntiVirus service includes 24x7x365 support.

How our AntiVirus Service Works

MessageLabs Email AntiVirus service uses a combination of technologies to deliver an industry-leading AntiVirus solution. First, to deal with known viruses, perimeter defenses deploy traffic and connection management to identify unwanted email from known sources, slow it down and reject it. Then, unknown viruses are intercepted by our Skeptic™ technology. Finally, by following links, the service identifies virus-hiding URLs. .

Email AntiVirus Information Exchange



  • All incoming emails are directed through the MessageLabs platform, hosted in secure data centers worldwide

  • Each email message is scanned for all known and unknown virus threats

  • All URLs referenced in emails are checked for viruses

  • A new signature is created whenever a suspicious link is confirmed as viral

  • Any email infected with a virus or containing a bad web link is blocked and quarantined, with sender and recipient notified

NEXT STEPS- Email AntiVirus Filter Service

Implementing our AntiVirus Filter service is a fast and easy process and is fully scalable to meet your growing needs. You simply pay a fixed monthly cost based on the number of users connected. Our Email AntiVirus filter can be purchased separately or in combination with our Email Anti-Spam, Email Image Control, Email Content Control services for increased email security. .

Take advantage of our free trial service today or contact our sales consultants for more information.

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