Secure your mailbox with powerful email antivirus protection!

If you’re one of our Cloud VPS customers and are looking to protect your hosted cloud email from viruses, you’ve probably heard about Parallels Premium Antivirus by Dr. Web already.

Dr. Web is what keeps your mailbox safe from all the naughty viruses out there. With more than two decades experience (Doctor Web started developing the anti-virus software in the early 1990’s) the developers have come up with a very effective heuristic engine, and comprehensive virus definitions database (over 120,000 definitions, and each individual definition can detect up to thousands of viruses!). Their sophisticated heuristic virus analysing engine with fly-code technology, origins tracing and structural entropy analysis can detect zero-day viruses and other malware before they are even added to the virus database.

Why do I need to use email antivirus?

Research from the UK’s Federation of Small Businesses estimates that the cost of cybercrime amongst its members in 2012 was £4,000 per member on average (around $6,500) of which virus infections were responsible for a staggering 20%!

According to a study in The Guardian, more than 9 million adults in Britain were hacked in the past year. Would you take this chance?

Another thing worth mentioning is spam generated from your computer becoming infected by viruses. It’s common for a virus to ‘hijack’ your computer to send outbound spam – and we all know everyone hates receiving spam! GroupIB, specialists in cyber security, made a recent report about the evolution of spam in the last two years and determined that profits gained worldwide from this activity reached $786 million in 2012. The main products targeted by these spamming campaigns were medicines, drugs or software. What would your customers say if they suddenly received slimming advice from your e-mail account? Not very professional, right? The only thing ‘slimmed’ would be your profits!

How it works

With Dr Web, you get a rapid protection time for all new viruses. You can be confident it’s up to date with hourly updates – critical during any outbreak! Dr. Web’s over 150 R&D staff work around the clock to keep a constant eye on new viruses and respond as soon as something looks questionable, keeping your inbox protected.

When scanning for a particular file, like an .exe for example, the software takes a sample of the file and then that particular sample is very efficiently with the database of already recorded malignant patterns. This way, the probability of recognising viruses that are not yet recorded in the Dr. Web virus database increases dramatically. It’s also designed to scan massive volumes of email messages without any delay in email processing and filter incoming email based on the headers of the messages.

What do you think about that? Your own army of developers fighting with all the worms, viruses and trojans to keep your mailbox safe 24×7. Dr. Web’s green little spider looks like a superhero to me. 🙂

How do I order email antivirus in Plesk?

With full integration with all versions of Plesk and you can order it with any new Cloud VPS or later from the customer control panel for only £5 per month (for our UK cloud hosting) and $7.50 per month (for our New York and Singapore cloud hosting).

For new Cloud VPS subscriptions

Simply add this to your shopping cart during the order wizard once you’ve selected a Managed Cloud Hosting plan.

For existing Cloud VPS subscriptions

Now that you got familiar with this antivirus you should know that you’re just a few clicks away from protecting your mailbox. Check out our knowledgebase to find out how to install and configure Parallels Premium Antivirus by Dr. Web – this very popular add-on is super easy to install, taking only a few minutes.