Google GMail Adds Virus Checking
Google’s web mail client GMail has recently updated its What’s New page with information on Google Virus Checking. GMail is not only working block viruses from infesting your inbox, but is also destroying viruses which try to use your outbox (sent mail) to spread their nastiness.
“Each time you send and receive attachments, Gmail automatically scans them for viruses.
If a virus is found in an attachment you’ve received, our system will attempt to remove it, or clean the file, so you can still access the information it contains. If the virus can’t be removed from the file, you won’t be able to download it.
If a virus is found in an attachment you’re trying to send, you won’t be able to send the message until you remove the attachment.”
[Hattip to Philipp Lenssen at Google Blogoscoped.]
Go Google! More email servers should use do this.
kick. ass. this is good, because it will hopefully overshadow microsoft’s antivirus announcement for teh day.
Nice
Fantastic. One less thing to worry about. :D
Now, if only they wouldn’t rewrite your outbound email address when using their SMTP servers
Anyone actually received a warning yet?
The spam filter can not be turned off. Even if you ask them why they will not respond… they probably get too much spam about it.
Also, any email that can not be delivered is then dumped in the Spam folder in case it is being used as a relay… however, for those of us downloading with POP, that care little for their flash AJAX, little is left as a clue of the result since the Spam folder can not be downloaded with POP nor can a filter be used to bypass this silly behavior.
I hope and pray, that with the overvalued brain drain that Google is, that they might be able to think of a smarter email filter, in the next few years…
Eu achei isso muito legal. Pena que só para os gringos. Por isso tive que mudar o idioma do meu GMail para o ingles para ter acesso a esse serviço.
En tao cara, no sabia GMAIL no tem esse servico em Portuguese.
Oi Google, que e isso meu? Tem muitos Brasilieros que usar os servicos de Google, especialmente Orkut, Blogger e GMail.
anyone know how to get rid of the aol search page that keeps popping up
tui muon tao nick gmail
Hm.. still not seen by me..
ahaha, nice one ;)
Maybe they can do something about the spam next…..
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It sucks and is good. I’m trying to download a 3MB attachment and it’s been going for an hour and still saying that it’s scanning for viruses, and I need that attachment.
Google has been hit with a virus recently that stores passwords everytime you click on a search. Google is working with infected websites such as WIRED, CNET, and USATODAY to remove the virus. Use an alternate search engine like YAHOO until this has been resolved. I received this information on FOXNEWS. Good luck!
Good