Sophos, the world-leader in network-based anti-virus solutions,
has announced that MailGate, the internet communication software
company, has chosen Sophos virus detection technology to create the
first POP3 mail server capable of virus scanning email on
arrival.
MailGate is using SAVI (Sophos Anti-Virus Interface) to
integrate the world-beating anti-virus engine into its mail server
product, MailGate. This development will enable SME networks to
benefit from on-access server virus scanning in the same way that
large corporate network servers are protected.
"We felt we had to do something to spare our SME customers the
considerable embarrassment of virus infection using email," said
Andrew Hall, managing director for Open Access Technologies Group
(MailGate's parent company). "In our view, the SAVI detection
engine will provide us with the most reliable virus protection but
another major factor in our decision to use the product was
Sophos's reputation for first rate customer support."
"MailGate's integration of Sophos's virus-finding engine into
their email server product is a ringing endorsement of our
technology," said Graham Cluley, senior technology consultant for
Sophos. "The Sophos Anti-Virus Interface allows third party
applications to benefit from what is recognised as the world's best
anti-virus protection".
SAVI will integrate seamlessly with MailGate software and will
check all incoming, outgoing and internal mail for viruses before
it is forwarded to the user's mailbox. SAVI disinfects and
quarantines suspect mail and then prompts MailGate to notify the
mailbox user and system administrator.
An integrated mail server and Internet proxy gateway server
provides Internet access for everyone on the network through a
single ISP connection, supporting company mail, concurrent Internet
sessions, ftp and web downloads. Designed from the outset as an
easily installable programme it allows access to a full range of
services to be set up in half an hour. It supports PSTN, ISDN and
permanent connections.
About MailGate
The company's range of internet products brings an integrated
approach to secure Internet mail and web access. Many thousands of
its mail server licences are used worldwide by commercial
organisations like Nortel Networks Inc., ICL, Pitmans, EDS,
Eurosat, Norweb and Slimming World; and by public bodies such as
the Royal Astronomical Society, Henley College, Coventry Education
Authority and U.N.I.C.E.F.
Sophos is headquartered in Boston, US and Oxford, UK. More information is available at www.sophos.com.