
AVIRA Antivirus for MailGate is a comprehensive antivirus solution for Linux mail servers, functioning at high speed and filtering against malicious contents by checking both incoming and outgoing emails. MailGate may run as a plug-in for Postfix, Exim and Sendmail-Milter, or as a SMTP gateway, being able to interact with a diversity of Mail Transport Agents (MTAs), as: Sendmail, Postfix, Exim, Qmail.
It runs on common Linux Distributions - Red Hat, SuSE, Debian, Mandrake, Fedora, Gentoo, Slackware, etc.
AVIRA Antivirus for MailGate highlights:
- Solid antivirus technologies: multi-platform, VB100% certified scan engine, proving its reliability with the 100% detection rate for 'in the wild' viruses - Extensive Malware Recognition: aside from viruses, Trojans, backdoor programs, worms, etc., AVIRA detects Adware & Spyware, double extension files and unusual runtime compression tools; - Automatic internet updates of the virus signatures database and of the antivirus engine - Comprehensive range of actions to perform on infected and suspicious items: isolate, block emails containing suspicious archives, block suspicious MIME emails -Plug-in capability for: Postfix, Exim, Sendmail-Milter - Extended scanning capabilities for both incoming and outgoing email traffic - Configurable notification functions for the administrator as well as for the email sender and recipient, keeping you constantly informed - Virus advanced detection by superior heuristics, based on specific behavior patterns - Recursive scanning inside an impressive array of common archive formats - Optional AVIRA Feedback Agent, a new simple module that sends directly to AVIRA the relevant information about the virus threats you are experiencing - Professional services: the AVIRA license entitles you to an entire year of free virus definitions updates and product upgrades, access to documentation, as well as standard technical support, offered by a team of skilled professionals. Limitations: - The Installation Kit comes fully featured. By default, the Update Service is disabled after the 30-days evaluation period. - To further benefit of Update Service you may acquire the appropriate commercial license (http://www.avira.com/en/pages/How_to_buy.html)

AVIRA Antivirus for MailGate (Linux) 1.0.4 was released by AVIRA GmbH on Friday 13 January 2006. Its known requirements are : i386/Linux OS with 2.2 Kernel and GLIBC 2.2 or better..