Gmail Now Has Antivirus

It appears Gmail has added a new feature. Your email attachments are now scanned for viruses automatically.

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 you are sending an attachment that contains a virus, gmail blocks you from sending the attachment.

Hasn’t this been implemented in other large scale, free email accounts for quite some time now? I can’t speak for Hotmail (because I hate it and refuse to have an account), but Yahoo Mail has had Norton Antivirus scanning every attachment of mine for quite some time now. Maybe Google isn’t as “on the ball” as we had all thought.

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