Features > Anti-Virus > Introduction IntroductionViruses can be one of the most crippling threats to an organization, destroying information and taking computer systems out of action whilst they are rebuilt.
As most viruses these days arrive by email, Mailtraq can play an important role in protecting the organization. Mailtraq enables you to use a number of different technologies to achieve this - you are not locked in to one particular approach or anti-virus vendor.
 The anti-virus interface is integrated to the Mailtraq Console under the Options menu.
Mail servers have different requirements for anti-virus than ordinary desktop boxes or file servers: Mailtraq Anti-virus integration has been tested with the following recommended products:
WARNING: Using 'regular' desktop anti-virus programs
Multi-threaded email servers have particular anti-virus requirements. This usually means that standard 'desktop' or corporate file-server anti-virus software is not suitable. Errors in processing email can occur resulting in misdirected messages or even database corruption.
Regular desk-top anti-virus programs are, of course, fine to use on your client machines.
Mailtraq 2.5 (and older) users: Although the new and old systems can be run together, the MessageFilter API (used by the AVG plug-in) makes the final decision on what action to take. We recommend that you uninstall the previous plug-in.
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