| Features | Benefits |
Detects and stops up to 98% of spam at the gateway. | Protects against email scams including phishing attacks, productivity loss and network downtime. |
Detects, disinfects, deletes or quarantines viruses, Trojans, worms and spyware in internal, incoming and outgoing email. | Protects organisations from the costs and disruption of a virus attack, stopping malicious code at the gateway before it can proliferate within the corporate network. |
Employs Genotype virus detection technology, which recognises families and variants of known viruses and spam campaigns. | Protects networks against new threats even before specific detection is available. |
Integrates seamlessly with SMTP email server or Microsoft Exchange. | Provides powerful anti-virus and anti-spam protection at the gateway without compromising email server performance or integrity. |
Protects global organisations from spam in multilingual message streams. End user web and digest interfaces enable users to manage their spam protection in their preferred language (English, French, German, Italian and Spanish). | Makes administration easier for large, multinational enterprises with subsidiaries in different countries or those using many languages in an IT environment. |
Synchronises with daily updates from SophosLabs™, a global network of threat analysis centres. | Provides rapid protection from the latest threats. |
Allows constant automated web-based download of the latest virus updates. | Keeps network security up to date, with fresh anti-virus updates available automatically. |
Provides an end-user quarantine review for quick retrieval of legitimate messages through both scheduled email digests and on-demand web access. | Allows users to retrieve email from the quarantine area without contacting the system administrator. |
Allows central administration from any terminal using administrator credentials. | Makes visits to individual terminals unnecessary, saving IT administration resources. |
Alerts administrators, senders and intended recipients on receipt of virus infected email. | Keeps users and administrators informed, allowing administration tasks to be performed remotely and allows visibility of the software’s effectiveness. |
Includes threat reduction technology which scans for infectable file types - administrators can block files types by extension and/or filename, messages with a specific subject line or Windows and DOS executables - even if the extension has been changed to mask the file’s real identity. | Protects organisations from new and unknown viruses entering company networks. |
Enables the creation of enterprise-wide blacklists and whitelists. | Ensures consistent organisation-wide email policies are maintained. |
Is backed up by SophosLabs™, a global network of threat analysis centres, and a threat detection network of "honeypots" collecting over 3 million spam messages a day. | Ensures that PureMessage is always up to date with the latest spam protection technologies. |
Includes access to the Sophos support knowledgebase and unlimited 24-hour phone and email support, 365 days a year at no additional cost. | Allows customers to call support an unlimited number of times. Problems can be dealt with immediately, 24 hours a day in any time zone. |