Vexira Antivirus for Mail Server (VAMS) is an email security application that provides scalable protection from viruses and spam. It can directly integrate with many email systems or can act as its own SMTP relay server to shield the email server itself from attack. It is specifically developed for high volume and high reliability for email service providers and enterprise who required extended service and security levels along with best-of-breed technology.
Key Benefits
- Mission critical architecture
- Antivirus, antispam and file filtering included
- Heuristics virus scanning with definable levels
- Multi-thread virus and spam scanning
- Block file types from entering email infrastructure
- Embedded email defense technologies
Antivirus, antispam and email policy in a single application
Vexira provides comprehensive protection in a single application framework to defend today's business from attack. 5 different checks are performed on email: File gate, File Filter, Field Filter, Virus Filter and Spam Filter.
Mission critical architecture
Vexira is built for organizations where email is a critical component to the operation. Vexira includes a purposefully developed "watchdog" to monitor the email operation and restart a failed service and send automatic alerts to system administrators. Several technologies are within Vexira to ensure the virus protection is fully functional at all times.
Per user and per domain configuration
Each user or domain owner can have specific configurations and rule sets. Vexira contains robust and highly scalable LDAP support.
Embedded email defense technology
Vexira contains several embedded email defense features including DoS protection, blacklisting, Zip-of-Death protection, and mail-bomb protection.
Embedded email modification technology
Vexira supports header modification, subject modification and custom message marking
on a percustomer basis.
Full email archival
Vexira supports full email archival. All email can be archived for later review and policy enforcement.
Real-time statistics of Vexira's operation
Included is a real-time overview application to let System Administrator monitor the current operation of Vexira.
Automatic virus and spam database upgrading
Fully automatic virus and spam database updating is supported using either FTP or HTTP protocols.
Statistical spam learning with custom rules
Vexira can be configured to learn your email and determine what is spam and what is not. Custom rules can easily be added to the database by the System Administrator or through Vexira?s internal auto-learn technology.
Supported operating systems
Linux (i386) Glibc 2.2.5 Kernel 2.2.1+
FreeBSD 4.9, 5.3
Sun Solaris 9 / SunOs 5.9
Minimum system requirements
Postfix
Exim
Sendmail
Qmail
Courier
Groupwise (Linux)
SMTP Relay
Intel Pentium (or compatible) at 400 MHz 64 MB RAM
UltraSparc IIe at 500 MHz 128 MB RAM
80 MB free hard disk space
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