Features

Why choose this product?
avast! Email Server Security scans your company’s email traffic, providing vital protection for your mailbox servers and ensuring your data remains shielded from detrimental loss. Licensed according to total number of mailboxes, it also integrates perfectly with Microsoft Exchange Server, via Microsoft's Virus Scan APIs.
Be in control
Our easy-to-navigate graphical user interface (GUI) offers a user-friendly central window to all program functions.
Get the info you want, when you want it
Comprehensive reporting options provide adjustable parameters for what information gets reported and how often.
Don't let new threats catch you
Our improved Behavior Shield stops "zero-day" threats and unknown malware, before virus definitions have been obtained.
Stay proactive
Our heuristics engine proactively finds malware that is undetectable with normal definitions and virus signatures.

Key technology:

Antispam
Antispam for Microsoft Exchange servers 2007/2010 with latest SP.
Antivirus and anti-spyware engine
Innovative scanning engine protects against viruses, spyware, and other malicious agents.
Heuristics engine
Proactively finds malware undetectable with normal definitions and virus signatures.
Intelligent Scanner
Reduces the number of required file scans up to 80% through a white list of safe applications. Files identified as safe are not rescanned unless they change.
Multi-threaded scanning optimization
Allows the splitting of large files between cores, which accelerates the scanning process on new multi-core CPUs and makes avast! run even faster.
Code emulator
Uses dynamic translation (much faster method than traditional emulation) for both generic unpacking and within the heuristics engine.
Smart virus definition updates
Incremental updating minimizes the size of regular update files.
Fast application of updates
New format for the virus definition file means faster updates, reducing demand on CPU/memory, for uninterrupted computing.
Simple attachment blocker
Blocks attachments based on file extension
Exchange plug-in
For tight integration with the Exchange server 2003/2007/2010
Background scanning option
Scans without impeding real operations of the server.
Notification manager
Built-in and customizable, to ease your workload.

System Requirements:

To run avast! File Server Security your system must meet the following criteria.
Windows 2003
Pentium 3 Processor
256 MB RAM
200 MB of free hard disk space

Windows 2008/R2, Windows SBS 2011
Pentium 3 Processor
512 MB RAM
200 MB of free hard disk space

Microsoft Sharepoint server 2003/2007/2010

Note: Minimum Windows system requirements have to be met! avast! File Server Security runs only on PCs with Windows XP and newer.
Please also note that avast! will not run properly if you have other antivirus software on your PC.