Scanning Mail - KAPERSKY ANTI-VIRUS 5.0 - FOR WINDOWS WORKSTATIONS Administrator's Manual

Application management using the local interface

5.2.2. Scanning mail

Real-time protection of incoming and outgoing e-mail messages is
provided only if you did not disable it during the installation of the
application. In order to install the mail protection feature, you will have
to re-install the application.
In real-time protection mode, the Kaspersky Anti-Virus analyzes requests for e-
mail receipt and dispatch, preventing penetration of malicious code into your
mailbox as well as the sending of suspicious or infected objects to the people in
your address book.
Kaspersky Anti-Virus performs the following functions:
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interception of incoming and outgoing e-mail using SMTP and POP3
protocols for any mail clients;
•
interception of incoming and outgoing e-mail in Microsoft Office Outlook
client over any mail protocols it uses;
•
detection of suspicious or infected objects both in the message body and
in attached objects at any nesting level.
Default e-mail scanning is performed in accordance with the recommended
settings, the application checks the following:
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incoming e-mail using POP3 protocol;
•
attached archives and files in mail message formats.
Please note that outgoing mail sent using SMTP protocol is NOT
scanned by default.
Real-time mail protection settings are configured on the Mail tab of the Real-
time protection settings dialog box (see Figure 18). In this window you can:
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enable/disable protection. In order to do this check or uncheck the
Enable real-time mail protection box. By default the box is checked -
protection is enabled;
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specify the anti-virus protection level, perform a detailed configuration of
the selected level (see section 5.2.1.1 on page 55);
•
create a list of objects that will not be scanned in the real-time mail
protection mode (see section 5.7 on page 92). In order to access the
window to be used to create the exclusions lists, press the not
specified/specified links next to the exclusions setting in the description of
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