Symantec AntiVirus^TM Gateway Solution provides high-performance, comprehensive, multi-layered protection against viruses, spam, and unwanted email and Web content at the Internet gateway. This bundled solution helps protect the network against email-borne viruses and blended threats like Blaster and MyDoom, and allows administrators to manage employee Internet usage and block unwanted email content such as spam. Symantec AntiVirus^TM Gateway Solution includes Symantec Mail Security^TM for SMTP and Symantec^TM Web Security to provide scalable content scanning with minimal network latency.

Symantec Mail Security^TM for SMTP provides integrated mail protection against virus threats, spam, and other unwanted content at the earliest point of network entry, the Internet email (SMTP) gateway. Award-winning virus protection defends against new and known viruses, and attachment and subject line blocking provides hour-zero responses against emerging threats. A new Mass-Mailer Cleanup feature eliminates worm-infected messages. Multi-layered spam prevention combines enhanced antispam heuristics, custom filtering rules, real-time and customer blacklists, and custom and auto-learned whitelists to maximize detections and minimize false positives.

Symantec^TM Web Security protects HTTP/FTP traffic with one-time scanning using leading antivirus and content filtering technologies. Secure and centralized policy management for multiple servers, groups, and users ensures streamlined administration. For comprehensive Web filtering, Symantec Web Security leverages both list-based and patented heuristic, context-sensitive analyses to screen content.

Each component of the solution can be managed remotely through an intuitive HTML-based management console. And Symantec AntiVirus^TM Gateway Solution is backed by Symantec^TM Security Response, the world's leading Internet security research and support organization.