Gmail to introduce anti-virus

Gmail has added a page to their help page describing how their anti-virus feature works. I don't see it in Gmail at the moment but I think they will start adding this in very soon. At present they block .exe files which to be honest blocks the majority of viruses.

I see Gmail's strategies for viruses /phishing/spam very good indeed. The notifications that are shown at the top for any email suspected of being intended for phishing credit card details or general fraud are accurate and well set out.

The blocking of images has also been a good move in that the whole page does not reload for any email that are not from trusted sources. Recently they did add the ability to permenantly allow images from a specific sender which seems to do the job since most people would only receive emails containing images from a mailing list or from friends.