Gateway Anti-Virus
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Gateway Anti-Virus allows applications across the enterprise to check files for viruses by providing a SOAP-based virus scanning web service
. Client applications attach files to SOAP messages and submit them to the Gateway Anti-Virus web service. The web service uses ClamAV to scan the attachments for viruses and it returns the results to the client.
Web service
A Web service is a method of communication between two electronic devices over the web.The W3C defines a "Web service" as "a software system designed to support interoperable machine-to-machine interaction over a network". It has an interface described in a machine-processable format...
. Client applications attach files to SOAP messages and submit them to the Gateway Anti-Virus web service. The web service uses ClamAV to scan the attachments for viruses and it returns the results to the client.