Worldwide, companies fight a daily battle against spam and virus threats.

Leading industry analysts collectively agree that spam proliferation is still on the increase. Virus designers are constantly inventing new viruses, such as slow-burning worms (which focus on avoiding detection and bypassing traditional Anti-Virus software) and viruses that attempt to install key loggers (that can record passwords and personal details leading to identity theft).

The ATC AVAS managed service, powered by MailMarshal, offers enterprise-class gateway protection. Its primary function is to intercept and quarantine spam messages before they reach the customer network. It also identifies and destroys viruses before they get the opportunity to infect the network.

The ATC AVAS managed service uses a technology known as ‘Sandboxing’, in conjunction with traditional pattern file checking, to speed up response to new viruses.

Sandboxing involves detection of new viruses through the observation of what the suspect code does in a virtual test environment and then predicting what it might do to a standard desktop PC.

ATC AVAS allows the client to choose the level of spam and virus protection based on a specific business needs.

This Anti-Virus Anti-Spam managed service is rules based and the client, in effect, decides which rules to apply to the domain under protection.

AVAS is available in 3 packages, ranging from basic to comprehensive and the choice of of package is determined by the client’s rule selection requirement.

ATC AVAS benefits

• Cost effective, highly functional Anti-Virus Anti-Spam managed service
• Cloud-based, managed technology
• Customer customisation-friendly
• Employs ‘sandboxing’ technology
• Ability to identify e-mail abuse (Gold package only)
• Protects intellectual property by safe-guarding network systems
• Improves staff productivity by saving time on having to deal with spam messages