Mail Sentinel® Anti-Virus subscription options is your first line of defense against virus attacks. Activating the Mail Sentinel Anti-Virus option through GTA firewall’s email proxy for SMTP email means real-time scanning for viruses and other malware is done at the perimeter before they reach your network.

Mail Sentinel Anti-Virus is powered by award winning Kaspersky Anti-Virus engine providing reliable virus protection based on time-proven virus detection algorithms: pattern matching, behavior emulation and heuristics. Each email is scanned and contents reviewed against a database of nearly 100,000 virus definitions. Kaspersky Lab leads the market in detecting new viruses and has a reputation of being first to include new virus definitions in their database which is updated every hour. With predictive technology, Kaspersky Lab can recognize new virus attacks with a high success rate. GTA firewalls with Mail Sentinel Anti-Virus automatically check for updates to the virus database hourly, assuring that the system is protected against the most recent virus attacks.

Mail Sentinel Anti-Virus features provide flexible implementation to match network bandwidth and corporate security policies. Network administrators can customize how emails are handled with choices to accept, reject, tag or quarantine emails with known viruses. To optimize performance, email and attachment size limits can be established. If a virus is found, the contents will be disinfected when possible.

GTA firewalls with active Mail Sentinel Anti-Virus subscriptions automatically receive periodic updates of anti-virus definitions to ensure the effective and accurate anti-virus protection.