Virus Protection for Email
All email destined for your Linux Web hosting account, regardless of where the domain name is hosted, is passed through our virus filtering cluster.
This high capacity cluster features a powerful antivirus engine which filters out potential threats before they are passed to your inbox. The antivirus engine is kept up to date using multiple antivirus signature databases which are updated multiple times every day, and contain hundreds of thousands of virus signatures.
Spam Protection
In addition to virus scanning we also pass all email destined for your Linux Web hosting account through a spam filtering cluster. The cluster identifies spam by matching each emails fingerprint against a matching list and, if found to be spam, rejecting it before it reaches your inbox. On average, we as a web host reject over 2 million spam emails every week before they reach our Linux Web hosting customers.
Virus Protection for HTTP and FTP
Active antivirus scanning is performed on all text files uploaded to our servers via HTTP and FTP. The active scanning of uploaded files can help prevent exploitation of an account by malware by moving suspicious files to quarantine before they become active.
In addition to utilising the same antivirus signature database as our email gateways, the breadth of exploit detection includes:
- Over 3000 known exploit script fingerprint matches
- Regular expression pattern matching to help identify unknown exploits
- Filename matching
- Suspicious file names
- Suspicious file types
- Binary executables
The system has been tuned for performance and scalability in order to ensure your Linux Web hosting service remains responsive and reliable.