Managed Email Anti-Virus Protection Service
MessageLabs managed Email Anti-Virus Service provides your business with protection from viruses, phishing, trojans, worms and other forms of malware. Our multi-layered, virus protection service stops known and unknown viruses before they reach your network. Ensuring your business avoids costs like system downtime, productivity loss and brand damage.
Why use our Email Anti-Virus protection service?
Our managed email Anti-Virus service is the only online solution in the world with a service level for 100% capture rate of known and unknown email viruses. It also requires no hardware or software purchases, no installation, no upfront costs, ongoing upgrades or maintenance. With our managed Anti-Virus service it’s fast and easy to setup and you simply pay a monthly usage fee.
Multi-layered protection against known and unknown viruses, worms, phishing and,trojans. | Provides effective email security, boosting business efficiency and continuity |
Link Following capability that checks all URLs contained in emails for malware | Detects and blocks potential links to malware – providing an additional layer of protection for your business. |
Proactive detection of new, emerging and converging threats | Giving you complete confidence in your anti-virus protection defenses. |
Fully configurable, with a range of actions for identified viruses and malware. | Flexibility to customise virus security policies to meet your specific business needs. |
Zero-hour protection from unknown viruses | Skeptic technology etc |
Dashboard, summary, plus detailed and scheduled reporting. | Visibility, accountability, plus certainty in the virus protection service’s effectiveness |
Internet level Virus Protection- 100% uptime | Peace of mind that all threats are stopped before they reach your business and that an experts managing your security 24x7x365 |
MessageLabs Email Anti-Virus service utilises formidable, innovative technologies which together deliver today’s most effective
anti-virus solution. To deal with known malware, our perimeter defenses deploy (i) Traffic Management
to slow down bad traffic and (ii) Connection Management to block illegitimate connections.
Unknown viruses are then intercepted by our predictive Skeptic™ technology, which specializes in
identifying and stopping these threats merging across protocols. These technologies are complemented
by our unique
Link Following capability that identifies viral URLs, and by best-of-breed third party techniques
- All incoming emails are directed through the MessageLabs platform, hosted in secure data centers worldwide
- Each message is scanned for all known and unknown threats
- All URLs referenced in emails are checked for malware
- A new signature is created whenever a suspicious weblink is confirmed as viral
- Any email infected with malware or containing a viral weblink is blocked and quarantined, with sender and recipient notified
Advantages of Managed Virus Protection Service
Everyday threats across email, web and IM are converging and growing more sophisticated, making the task of securing your network extremely difficult. Messagelabs managed Anti-Virus Protection Service combines best-of-breed scanners with our proprietary Skeptic™ technology providing unparalleled virus protection.
There are very attractive advantages of using the MessageLabs service:
- Comprehensive zero hour virus protection from ‘conventional’ and highly advanced viruses ensures you have peace of mind that you are always protected
- ‘Link Following’ capability that safeguards your organisation from malicious links hidden in emails
- Dramatically reduced bandwidth and storage costs as virus and spam threats are stopped at the internet-level before they reach your network.
- Quick and easy deployment as the fully managed virus protection service requires no software or hardware investment
- Peace of mind that you are always protected against the latest malware threats as MessageLabs unique multi-layered filtering proactively detects new and emerging virus threats better than anyone else
- 24/7 support, plus unrivalled service level agreements for service performance, service availability, email latency and fault response