Kaspersky Virus Blocker

Overview:

Stopping viruses at the Internet gateway is critical. Virus threats have shifted dramatically from email to the web. Malware outbreaks have scaled exponentially, from 200,000 in 2006, to 2 million in 2007, to 20 million in 2008. Kaspersky Virus Blocker is a best-of-breed anti-virus application for businesses, schools and homes that want the reassurance of robust virus protection. It's a commercial application that:

• Block viruses at the gateway before they even touch the PCs or servers
• Protect users in realtime from viruses over HTTP, SMTP, POP, IMAP & FTP
• Update automatically with new signatures every hour

Untangle, we're always looking for the best applications to offer our customers. Every time we've tested anti-virus software Kaspersky comes out on top… and we're not alone in singing Kaspersky's praises, they've won numerous awards from CNET, SC Magazine, PC World and many others! AV-Comparatives, an independent company, ranked Kaspersky #1 in both On-Demand Scanning and Rootkit Detection. Kaspersky tied for first place on the Fastest Response Time to malware threats.

Kaspersky Lab’s success stems from their international team of the world's leading virus researchers and developers. Kaspersky’s research team works round the clock to stay ahead of the game with new virus blocking techniques and ensure rapid response to new threats as they emerge. To date, Kaspersky has written over 200,000 virus definitions and the numbers grows every day.

Together, Untangle and Kaspersky offer cutting edge virus blocking technology starting at just $10 per month.

Key Features:

• Award winning best-of-breed virus protection from the leading anti-virus vendor
• Kaspersky Virus Blocker sits at the network gateway so there is only one application to keep up-to-date, and Untangle does that automatically
• Protection on the most common email protocols SMTP, IMAP, and POP
• Protection for webmail and file transfer via HTTP and FTP protocols, an increasingly common route for infection
• Reports and event logs show you what viruses are being blocked on the network

Technical Specifications:

 

Virus Blocker and Kaspersky Virus Blocker protect your network against viruses. Viruses infect networks in many different ways, so our Virus Blocking applications scan numerous protocols for viral signatures including:

• Email: SMTP, POP, IMAP
• Web: HTTP
• File Transfer: FTP

Virus Blocker is based on an open source virus scanner, ClamAV, while Kaspersky Virus Blocker leverages Kaspersky . Both Applications:

• Detect viruses, worms, and trojan horses
• Scan within archives and compressed files: Zip, RAR, Tar, Gzip, Bzip2, MS OLE2, MS Cabinet Files, MS CHM, and MS SZDD
• Protect against archive bombs, files that are repeatedly compressed. Such files cause other virus scanners or programs to crash or hang by consuming all CPU resources. Intensive resource consumption can occur when other virus scanners scan numerous levels of files within files; however, Untangle Virus Blocker products thwart this technique

What It Does

Transparently scans HTTP, FTP, SMTP, POP and IMAP traffic for viral signatures

How It Does It

Virus Blocker and Kaspersky Virus Blocker use on-the-fly decompression of archive files for scanning and can scan arbitrarily large files

Controls

• Can be configured to scan incoming and/or outgoing by traffic type
• In addition,
  • HTTP: configurable scanning by file extension or MIME type
  • SMTP: action on detection can be set to remove infection, block or pass message, with or without sender and/or receiver notification
  • POP and IMAP: action on detection can be set to remove infection or pass message (the nature of POP and IMAP protocols prevents messages from being blocked, but they can be scanned and cleansed)
  • FTP and HTTP: “download resume” can be disabled
• Scan trickle rate can be configured to support very large files

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