- Platform independent - Advanced Content and Behavioural Analysis - Fully automated malware dependent environment selection - Behaviour-based heuristics - Generic detection routines - High speed multi-threading support - Advanced virtual environment with low resource usage - Various complex analysis techniques: reverse-engineering and manual analyses by the IKARUS LAB team - Global threat data from IKARUS Signature Quality Assurance Program - Threat data from multiple IKARUS Scan Centers - Sample sharing with industry leaders Example for usage:  Server-side application - File scanning service - Command line tool – most programming languages Your own Antivirus software. - For tech oriented teams

The URL Safety Cloud service is highly applicable to developers of security products and services. This includes providers of web traffic scanning, internet content filtering, email scanning, firewalls, routers and firewalls. The REST API leverages the threat intelligence data that is at the heart of Avira's award-winning security service. Continuous threat analysis and assessment of internet resources (such as websites, domains, IP addresses, email, documents) for compromise, ensures that the most current classification data-set for the URL Safety Cloud web reputation is always available. Over its operational life, the web reputation service has already responded to billions of enquiries. The product features a lightweight usage model using an authenticated RESTful API over HTTPS with optionally compressed content. Each query might contain individual URLs or batches.