AVIRA MailGate 1.0.3 review

AVIRA MailGate is a comprehensive antivirus solution, especially designed to offer smooth information exchange, functioning at high s

License: Shareware File size: 5475K Developer: AVIRA

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AVIRA MailGate is a comprehensive antivirus solution, especially designed to offer smooth information exchange, functioning at high speed and checking both incoming and outgoing emails.

Companies incline to settle on Unix servers at a greater extent than ever before. Corporate networks include a high number of Windows workstations and Windows users generally employ the Unix servers for their e-mail exchange. Recently, the Windows environment is increasingly aimed by virus writers through e-mail malware. This leads to a larger need of reliable protection at gateway level, so that infected e-mails do not reach any Windows workstation.

AVIRA MailGate is a Unix-dedicated solution, able to reliably handle e-mail filtering against malicious contents, scanning the entire traffic (to and from the Internet, as well as the internal traffic), by checking the incoming and outgoing SMTP connections directly on the mail server.

AVIRA MailGate acts as an SMTP gateway with a diversity of Mail Transport Agents (such as: Sendmail, Postfix, Exim, Qmail and many others), or as a plug-in application with Postfix, Exim and Sendmail-Milter.
It runs on common Linux Distributions - Red Hat, SuSE, Debian, Mandrake, Fedora, Gentoo, Slackware, etc, FreeBSD 4.x / 5.x and OpenBSD 3.4 or newer. This solution also supports Access Control Lists, when running in the gateway mode.

MailGate’s ability to run as a plug-in for Postfix, Exim and Sendmail-Milter offers top scanning speeds and better scalability comparing to the usual mail gateway configurations. The product does not use additional mail queues and the message content is not duplicated for scanning. Moreover, it ensures that the infected messages are isolated in the quarantine directory.

Benefits:

Solid antivirus technologies: multi-platform, VB100% certified scan engine, proving its reliability with the 100% detection rate for “in the wild” viruses;
Enhanced antivirus protection: the product offers permanent protection against complex threats, ensuring an immediate outbreak response when new viruses emerge;
Extensive Malware Recognition: aside from viruses, Trojans, backdoor programs, worms, etc., AVIRA detects Adware & Spyware, double extension files and unusual runtime compression tools;
Plug-in capability for: Postfix, Exim, Sendmail-Milter;
Extended scanning capabilities for both incoming and outgoing email traffic; it checks mail attachments, including many types of archives: ZIP, ZIP-Sfx, ARJ, ARJ-Sfx, TAR, GZ, ZOO, UUEncode/XXEncode, TNEF, MIME, BinHex, MSCompress, MS CAB, LZH/LHA, LZH/LHA Sfx, RAR, RAR-Sfx, JAR, BZ2, ACE, ACESfx.;
Incident Management: all incidents reported by the AVIRA customers, as well as the solutions offered by the assigned Technical Account Manager, are atutomatically registered with a special ticketing service;
Professional services: the AVIRA license entitles you to an entire year of free virus definitions updates and product upgrades, access to documentation, as well as standard technical support, offered by a team of skilled professionals.

Here are some key features of "AVIRA MailGate":
Efficient and comprehensive actions:
Blocking e-mails based on the attached files' extensions (including either plain files or packed in archives)
Scanning incoming and outgoing emails including attachments;
Isolating suspicious and infected files;
Blocking emails containing suspicious archives;
Blocking suspicious MIME emails;
Scanning e-mails based on their sender and/or recipient addresses;
Relaying based on Access Control Lists of IP’s, domains or hosts
External programs plug-in capability for infected files;
Options for administrating the quarantined emails;
Logging in the server's logs or stand-alone files ;
Postmaster notification for important events.
Plug-in capability for popular Mail Transfer Agents:
Exim, Postfix, Sendmail Milter;
Heuristic detection for both macro and Win32 viruses
You can stay protected even against undiscovered threats, due to the advanced behavior analysis technology, which helps identifying and blocking suspicious programs according to code patterns inspection;
Recursive scanning inside archives
In order to check files that are stored in archives, AVIRA makes a real in-depth examination: the nested archives are also unpacked and scanned, level by level. The possibility to freely select the recursion level is also available, optimizing the process speed. The following are checked, among others: ZIP, ZIP-Sfx, ARJ, ARJ-Sfx, TAR, GZ, ZOO, UUEncode/XXEncode, TNEF, MIME, BinHex, MSCompress, MS CAB, LZH/LHA, LZH/LHA Sfx, RAR, RAR-Sfx, JAR, BZ2, ACE, ACESfx;
Configurable notification functions for the administrator, e-mail sender and recipient
In case of detecting viruses, unwanted programs or suspicious files, an e-mail containing detailed warnings is sent to the postmaster. These reports can also be directed to the sender and/or recipients of the filtered message. In addition, the program includes message templates that can be used at any time, as needed. At the same time, user defined text may be inserted in every e-mail checked by AVIRA MailGate;
Automatic Internet Updates
The Automatic Internet Updater makes sure that your AVIRA solution is permanently up-to-date with the latest virus definition files and scan engine. It can be configured to check for updates at specific times or intervals; for increased flexibility, this kind of tasks can also be performed through the cron daemon;
Self-Integrity Program Check
Your antivirus scanner should always perform a self-check when it starts. Viruses frequently corrupt antivirus installations, which is why a self-check ensures the antivirus system is operating correctly at all times;
AVIRA Feedback Agent (optional)
This simple module sends directly to AVIRA the relevant information about the virus related difficulties you are experiencing. By enabling this useful module, you highly contribute to the accuracy of the AVIRA virus research activity, sustaining the perpetual campaign against malware threats.

Requirements:
Platform: i386;
Operating System: Linux with 2.2 Kernel and GLIBC 2.2 or better;
8MB free harddisk space for product installation;
20MB free harddisk space for the working directory;
32MB free memory space (64 MB recommended);
Perl 5 for automatic installation.