Google adds virus-scanning facility to Google Gmail

It has been more than a year and a half since search engine giants Google launched their web mail service Gmail. It has been a massive success enabling web users to manage their email in a much-organized manner. It has also led to competition awaking up and doing major changes to their policies regarding their web mail services. Both Yahoo! and MSN upgraded the capacities of their web mail services and are in the process of developing new hybrid interfaces for the users.

However, Gmail has not been perfect. It lacked browser support, and many other things, which were essential for it to become successful. One important thing was virus-scanning abilities to prevent users from downloading or sending harmful files. It took them a lot of time but Google has finally added this very essential facility to their Gmail service.

Gmail now comes with Anti-Virus engine integrated in its service and now users cannot send files and attachment containing viruses and spyware. In addition, all the incoming mails and attached files are scanned and cleaned before it reaches the users. If the file cannot be cleaned, Gmail prohibits the user from downloading the virus infected file.

This latest feature addition finally helps Gmail becoming a lot complete service and it is about time Google should plan to bring Gmail out of beta testing.