SonicWall Threat Prevention - Intrusion Prevention, Gateway Anti-Virus, Gat

SonicWall Gateway Anti-Virus (GAV) delivers real-time virus protection directly on the SonicWall security appliance by using SonicWall’s IPS-Deep Packet Inspection v2.0 engine to inspect all traffic that traverses the SonicWall gateway. Building on SonicWall’s reassembly-free architecture, SonicWall GAV inspects multiple application protocols, as well as generic TCP streams, and compressed traffic. Because SonicWall GAV does not have to perform reassembly, there are no file-size limitations imposed by the scanning engine. Base64 decoding, ZIP, LHZ, and GZIP (LZ77) decompression are also performed on a single-pass, per-packet basis.

SonicWall GAV delivers threat protection by matching downloaded or e-mailed files against an extensive and dynamically updated database of threat virus signatures. Virus attacks are caught and suppressed before they travel to desktops. New signatures are created and added to the database by a combination of SonicWall’s SonicAlert Team, third-party virus analysts, open source develo