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Avira GmbH Avira AntiVir MailGate 7
2.1 Features
Avira AntiVir MailGate supports a variety of configuration settings to ensure that
you have control of the email traffic on your system.
The essential features of Avira AntiVir MailGate are:
• real-time scanning of incoming and outgoing emails;
• scanning for viruses and unwanted programs;
• configurable spam filter (available in Avira MailGate Suite);
• scanning of mailboxes;
• isolation of suspicious and infected files;
• configurable notification functions for the administrator and for the email
sender and recipient;
• reporting statistics about AntiVir MailGate’s activity into a database;
• automatic Internet update for product, scanner, engine and VDFs;
• heuristic detection for macro viruses;
• recognition of all common archive types (with configurable recursion level for
nested archives);
• optional: GUI support for integration with Avira Security Management
Center.