Best practice for preventing virus infection is to never open an attachment from someone you don't know. It's a good idea to scan attachments even from known senders, especially if it's not a file you asked to receive or the cover note is suspicious.
The personal and server tools in these sections are specifically designed to examine incoming e-mail for viruses. The Attachment Security update prevents Outlook users from launching files directly from e-mail messages. Outlook 98 and 2000 users should make sure that they have the latest updates affecting HTML mail.
Anti-virus Tools for Outlook - antivirus tools for use with Outlook.
Anti-virus Tools for Attachment Security - tools specific to attachments, including easy access to the blocked attachment settings.
For information on specific viruses, see Viruses Affecting Microsoft Outlook.
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Tools
Protects against email viruses and other threats with multiple virus engines, content and attachment quarantine, HTML script analysis, recognition of common HTML mail exploits, and other features. Uses the Exchange Virus Scanning API to check both internal and external messages. An available freeware version includes one anti-virus scanner and performs basic keyword content analysis. | |
Hexamail Nexus acts as an intelligent email gateway for your incoming and outgoing mail. Analyzing received and sent e-mail, it can reroute, monitor, alert, block, filter spam, virus and malware, and audit all email traffic. For example you could begin with just advanced email rerouting, and later you can add antivirus or antispam protection, alerting, blocking or monitoring and analysis modules. Providing you with an intelligent messaging platform which you can plug modules as the need arises. | |
Performs anti-virus and content scanning of traffic between Exchange and the Internet. Can also perform automatic compression. | |
Messageware EPG: Real-time security stops AD account lockouts, eliminates brute force password attacks, provides intelligent GEO blocking, and prevents Exchange Server vulnerability probing. Enhance security through real-time collection and analysis of logon information, with advanced reporting, threat detection, and security controls. | |
Messageware Z-Day Guard: next-gen server protection, providing detection, alerting, and response (MDR) to zero-day and server penetration cyber-attacks. Leverages embedded monitoring technology that cannot be turned off by malicious software. Z-Day employs innovative Server Integrity Monitoring to establish a trusted server baseline, enabling it to detect and respond to threats in real-time. With rapid response capabilities, Z-Day reduces the window of vulnerability against sophisticated cyber threats. | |
SPAMfighter Exchange Module (SEM) is an easy-to-use and configurable Spam Filter and Antivirus for Exchange Server 2000, 2003, 2007, 2010, 2013, 2016. | |
Email security software for Exchange featuring world-class antivirus, antispam, and a powerful, granular attachment filter. | |
Sits between Exchange Server and the Internet to scan messages for viruses, attachments and unwanted subject lines and add a disclaimer to outgoing messages. Also handles scheduled ETRN and statistics and can keep a copy of every message sent. Can detect attachments in rich-text messages, remove rich-text or HTML formatting, block messages in different languages, block spam based on a spam DNS database, |
Exchange Server Cleanup
The easiest way avoid is to keep your server free of viruses by scanning the mail as it arrives. However, occasionally a virus will slip through.
Most anti-virus tools are capable of scanning the message store and removing infected messages. You can also use ExMerge, Isscan (Exchange 5.5 only), or most Content Control Tools to look for and remove specific attachments or messages containing specific keywords.
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Web-based virus scanners:
Also see:
- IIS Lockdown Tool -- Turns off unnecessary IIS features to reduce the likelihood of attacks on your servers using customized templates.
- Content Control Tools
- Protecting Microsoft Outlook against Viruses -- comprehensive list of patches and settings
Hi Diane, do you have a program that will delete all the attachments from emails in a folder ? I have 10000 emails I want to remove the attachments from in outlook 2007. thanks, Shawn
I do. You could use a macro, or a a commercial program. See the list on our housekeeping page.