Anti-Virus for email Anti-virus capabilities are powered by market leader Sophos, offering a gateway anti-virus scanning of all incoming, outgoing emails. Unlike ISP operated anti-virus services, the UTM anti-virus solution checks all mails being sent between users internally within the organisation – not just email coming from external sources. Further, it checks all email accounts coming from all ISPs – not just the single ISP selling you their service and even better regardless of whether the email is POP, SMTP and potentially even hotmail web based! Virus signatures are automatically downloaded by UTM equipped NetPilots. The NetPilot will check every hour and update both the database of over 96,000 signatures and even the scanning engine if required.

Network administrators can choose to quarantine emails that have positively identified as carrying a virus, as wells as quarantine or forward emails that cannot be opened for scanning because they are encrypted.

The NetPilot makes an ideal second tier of defence for organisations that have already deployed desktop anti-virus. In the real world where individual PC subscriptions can expire or unprotected laptops be plugged in without the network administrator knowledge, NetPilot can still protect those users and the rest of the organisation.

The UTM option for email policies works in conjunction with the anti-virus option by allowing the network administrator to exercise greater controls based on source and destination addresses as well as many other attributes.

NetPilot's Anti-virus implementation has been independently tested and accredited by West Coast labs and awarded their Checkmark certification.