Every company needs to protect their data from corruption. By now most every company uses multiple layers of security to prevent viruses from entering their network but as your company grows from small to medium to large then so do your needs for improved service levels. And antivirus software must be capable to support your companies changing environment. Administrators cannot allow their company’s private data to be put at risk of compromise because of limited product functionality.

Here then are several features to expect when considering a new antivirus package.

1. The ability to scan both inbound and outbound email messages should be a feature that is part of your evaluation checkbox list. Most administrators think of only protecting their customers – either all employees or a subset of various company departments – from viruses coming into their company. But administrators should also be looking to protect all email messages that are sent to the outside world. Just as everyone does not want to receive emails which contain viruses it is also just as important to not be the one responsible for inadvertently sending viruses to the outside world. Customers are much less likely to do business with another company if they don’t believe that the company who is selling them either products or services can be trusted to send out email messages that do not contain viruses.
2. Multiple antivirus scanning levels should always be a component of any good antivirus software package. Does the antivirus package support single, double and triple level virus scanning levels?
3. Updates should be at regular and frequent intervals. A choice of five minute, ten minute and fifteen minute intervals can support fine granularities of protection from viruses. Manual or automatic updates should be user selectable and easy to change.
4. Measurable scanning times and visual checks on virus scans in progress can be a great help when the time comes to plan your antivirus checks.
5. File, folder or entire system level scanning should also be a user selectable option. But consider entire system level scanning reserved only for system administrators.
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