Anti-Virus
What is Anti-Virus?
Anti-Virus is a virus scanning software that checks texts and data for known virus signatures. It is used on a mail server to scan incoming and outgoing email messages for viruses and malware.
Are all messages scanned for viruses?
While real email viruses used to be a big problem, they are almost non-existent today. Sometimes you can still find malicious macros in office documents.
Nowadays, malware is usually stored on a web server and has to be opened and started by clicking on a link in the e-mail message. Sometimes e-mail messages also contain active script elements, in which case malware can be executed immediately on external servers without having to click on it.
In any case, Mailix checks every incoming and outgoing e-mail message to see
- whether it contains known viruses
- whether known malicious macros are contained in attached Office documents
- whether dangerous active script elements are contained in the message
- whether the included Internet links are known to trigger malware.
If any of these are found, the message is rejected and the potential recipient is notified of the rejection.
Mailix provides you with some basic security in email correspondence. Nevertheless, you should be careful what you click on and what you open. Because no virus and malware protection is 100% safe. Unfortunately.
See also:
Wikipedia: Anti-Virus