Tuesday, January 06, 2009



eScan - Features - Realtime Email Scanning

Automatic compression /decompression of attachments
eScan automatically compresses/decompresses outgoing and incoming attachments. This saves valuable bandwidth. A range of options allows you to select the level of compression, minimum size of attachment for automatic compression, etc. You can also specify attachment types that are excluded from auto compression.

The feature is found in eScan Content Administrator > e-mail Attachment Control


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Supports inclusion of e-mail disclaimers
eScan allows you to automatically send customized disclaimers with outgoing and incoming mails. You can specify e-mail IDs to which they are sent.


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Auto backup of e-mail and attachments
eScan allows you to backup all e-mail's and attachments sent or received through your system, into a directory. This feature allows you to find who is sending what through e-mail's You can also specify attachment types that should be excluded from being archived.

The feature is found in eScan Content Administrator > e-mail Attachment Control > Advanced (Button) > Archival (tab)


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Plugs outlook express vulnerabilities
IE has certain loopholes or vulnerabilities, through which viruses are delivered. Since Outlook Express and other mail clients are from the same product stable, delivery of viruses into your system becomes easier as they are from the same manufacturer, delivery of viruses into your system becomes easier.

eScan has allows you to plug some types of vulnerabilities like: delete Files with CLSID Extension; HTML with Scripts; Script Tags, etc. Some virus-infected files have multiple extensions like. doc.exe. Compressed files also have double extension (e.g. pdf.zip), even though they are harmless. eScan allows you to specify actions for such files.

The feature is found in eScan Content Administrator > e-mail Attachment Control > Advanced (Button) > IE Vulnerabilities-I and IE Vulnerabilities-II (tab)


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View quarantined mail messages
When mails that have suspicious content or display a structure similar to viruses, such mails can be quarantined. It is important to view details of such messages. Quarantine folder path Displays the default Quarantine Folder Path. Quarantine File Types allows you to add Email file types such as .eml, .msg, .mes that should be quarantined. Show Attachments checkbox shows the Spam attachments. You can run tasks like Refresh, Stop, Properties, Fins, Delete and message source. Details of Spam mails like: From, To, CC, Subject, Received, Size (Kb), Attachments and the File Name are displayed.


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