How to protect your Mail Server from Viruses and filtering out Spam content

Virus and Spam – two deadly words in today’s age that can give you sleepless nights. You may have the most sophisticated Mail Server taking care of all your email and groupware requirements, but did you know that one small oversight on your end can open your secured and confidential environment to a whole new world of malicious threats!

If you are thinking, “Who would send viruses and spam in my mailbox? I do not sign up for any unknown offers or services!” It does not matter. If your Mail Server doesn’t have a robust virus and spam monitoring system, it’s time you switched to another platform… immediately.

The information superhighway, or what we more commonly know of as the internet, has a huge amount of virus signatures, malware and spam that can cause many Mail Server woes. Loss of important business data, corrupted calendar and contact information, at the very least you would be out of business for a full day if you needed to restore your data!

The old saying, “prevention is better than cure” applies in this regard, where security and integrity of data is of primary importance. You can reduce the number of unwanted emails delivered to your mailbox or check your emails and attachments against any virus threats to ensure that your data is safe and secure. Moreover, spam wastes expensive mailbox space and clutters it up with unwanted information and might even slow down the performance of your server. Viruses, as we all know, can corrupt your sensitive data to such extremes that under some circumstances, you might even fail to recover them.

In the context that follows, we’ll talk about a Mail Server that has some smart security measures that will allow you to relax about the security and integrity of information that may be sensitive to your business. This new MailServer on the block has evolved into the best alternative for Microsoft Exchange. We are referring to the hosted Kerio MailServer solution from InfTek, Inc.

Thought that your Mail Server was secure enough with a single antivirus engine? It’s time that you doubled your protection with the dual anti-virus technology that comes shipped with Kerio. Kerio has really worked hard and taken an extra measure to seal all known security loopholes. If one anti-virus layer fails to update its definitions on time, the second layer will test your emails and attachments against latest virus definitions and signatures. The chances that both anti-viruses will fail to update its definitions database(s) is quite low.

The Kerio website lists more than 10 anti spam features of the Kerio MailServer. With hosting solutions offered by InfTek based on the Kerio MailServer, all your incoming mail gets filtered against several state of the art spam filtering technology, to deter and reject unwanted emails.

InfTek’s hosted Kerio MailServer solution truly is the safest and most efficient means to protect your proprietary information, and keep your business running at full-steam day in and day out.