Antivirus Connection Types; Configuring Antivirus Protection - D-Link DFL-500 User Manual

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Select the connection type to configure for that protocol
For each connection type you can select to protect:
· Firewall traffic
· IPSec VPN traffic
For each protocol and connection type you can turn on virus scanning or turn on and configure file blocking.
This section describes:
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Antivirus connection types

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Configuring antivirus protection

Antivirus connection types
You can configure virus protection separately for 2 traffic streams. These 2 traffic streams correspond to the 2
firewall policy types.
Antivirus protection connection types
Connection
Description
Type
To protect users and servers installed on your internal network from downloading viruses from the
Internet:
Configure Int to Ext HTTP virus protection to prevent users on your internal network from downloading
viruses from web pages
Int to Ext
Configure Int to Ext SMTP virus protection to prevent an SMTP email server on your internal network
from receiving email containing viruses
Configure Int to Ext POP3 and IMAP virus protection to prevent users from receiving email containing
viruses when they download email from their POP3 or IMAP accounts
To protect users and servers on the Internet from downloading viruses from your internal network:
Configure Ext to Int HTTP virus protection if you have a web server on your internal network that can be
accessed from the Internet, to prevent this web server from distributing viruses to users on the Internet
Configure Ext to Int SMTP virus protection if you have an SMTP server on your internal network that can
Ext to Int
be accessed from the Internet by other SMTP servers
Configure Ext to Int POP3 and IMAP virus protection if you have a POP3 or IMAP server on your internal
network that is accessed by users on the Internet, to prevent these servers from distributing viruses to
your remote POP3 or IMAP users
Configuring antivirus protection
To configure virus scanning:
· Go to Anti-virus .
· Select a content protocol (HTTP, SMTP, POP3, or IMAP) for which to configure antivirus protection.
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Select a connection type.
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Configure antivirus protection for the selected protocol and connection type.
Enable antivirus protection for firewall traffic that matches the antivirus connection type that you
Enable Firewall
are configuring. See
Protection
between firewall traffic and antivirus connection types.
Enable IPSEC
Enable antivirus protection for IPSec VPN traffic that matches the antivirus connection type that
Protection
you are configuring.
Settings
Select Scan or Block.
Scan
DFL-500 antivirus protection extracts the following files from the protocol data stream and scans
DFL-500 User Manual
Antivirus protection connection types for information about the relationship
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