I've been a long time user of Google's GMail service, and I am constantly impressed as they continue to add more and more features. This latest update involves adding anti-virus protection. This works for both incoming and outgoing messages. If you receive a file that contains a virus, GMail will attempt to clean the file. If that is unsuccessful, you will not be able to access the file.

If you sending an email and you attach a file that contains a virus, the file will not be sent with your message. You will also receive a visual notification informing you which attachment is infected as well as one at the top of the compose window.

On a side note, another recent update I've noticed is http://mail.google.com automatically re-directs to https://mail.google.com. YAY SSL is good!! I've had wondered why it wasn't doing that before. I guess I don't need that GreaseMonkey script to do it for me anymore. =)