Hosted Email Anti-Virus Service


MessageLabs hosted Email Anti-Virus Service protects your business from known and unknown email viruses. Our multi-layered, internet level email virus protection service stops known and unknown viruses before they reach your network, helping your business avoids costs like system down-time, lost productivity and brand damage. We can also help protect your company from phishing scams, Trojans, worms and other forms of email based malware.

Our Email Anti-Virus filter service is compatible with any SMTP compliant email messaging platform including: Exchange Email Server, GroupWise, Lotus Notes-Domino, providing a cost effective, easy to manage email anti-virus filtering solution. Whether you are a small to mid-size corporation or a large enterprise organization, our solution is scalable to fit the needs of any size business. Enhance your email security by adding our Email Anti-Spam filter, and effectively block spam and known and unknown viruses simultaneously.

Why use our Email Anti-Virus service?

Our hosted Email Anti-Virus service has a service level to protect against 100% known and zero-hour (unknown) email viruses before they reach your network. It requires no hardware, no installation, and no ongoing upgrades or maintenance. MessageLabs Email Anti-Virus service can be set up in minutes providing your business with market leading email anti-virus security.

Your challenge: MessageLabs Hosted Anti-Virus Service: Results:
Reducing the risk of email based virus infection Uses multi-layered filtering Your network is safe from zero-hour protection from known and unknown email viruses
Follows links embedded in messages Users can click on links without downloading viruses
Meeting the specific needs of your business Is fully configurable with a range of actions for identified viruses You can customize virus security settings to meet your policies
Ensuring that everything is working Delivers one-click and scheduled reporting You can have confidence in the service’s effectiveness, with reports to support it


As with all MessageLabs products, our hosted Anti-Virus service includes 24x7x365 support.

How our Anti-Virus Service Works

MessageLabs Email Anti-Virus service uses a combination of technologies to deliver an anti-virus solution trusted by financial institutions and governments. First, to deal with known viruses, perimeter defenses deploy traffic and connection management to identify unwanted email from known sources, slow it down and reject it. Then, unknown viruses are intercepted by our Skeptic™ technology. Finally, by following links the service identifies virus-hiding URLs.

Email Anti-Virus Information Exchange



  • All incoming emails are directed through the MessageLabs platform, hosted in secure data centers worldwide

  • Each email message is scanned for all known and unknown virus threats

  • All URLs referenced in emails are checked for viruses

  • A new signature is created whenever a suspicious link is confirmed as viral

  • Any email infected with a virus or containing a bad web link is blocked and quarantined, with sender and recipient notified

NEXT STEPS- Email Anti-Virus Filter Service

Implementing our Anti-Virus Filter service is a fast and easy process, which our support team can talk you through if required. You simply pay a fixed monthly cost based on the number of users connected. Our Anti-Virus filter service is fully scalable to ensure new employees can be added easily as your business grows.

Our Email Anti-Virus filter can be purchased separately or in combination with our Email Anti-Spam service for increased email security. Other service options include Email Image Control, Email Content Control and Email Encryption which can be easily added on to our Anti-Virus service, providing greater levels of protection to meet your organization’s email security needs.

Take advantage of our free trial service today or contact our sales consultants for more information.

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