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Getting Started with the User Interface
Policy Manager
4 In Activation, select Enable to enable the file filtering scanner settings for the policy.
TIP: For a true file type filtering, enable Content Scanning too.
5 In Alert selection, specify which alert will be used when an infected document triggers a
filtering rule. You can also select an existing alert or click Create to create a new alert.
NOTE: For more information about creating a new alert, refer to the Creating a New Alert
section.
If the alert text is not shown and you would like to review it, click View/Hide to display
the text. If the alert text is displayed, click View/Hide to hide it.
6 From File filtering rules and associated actions, use the following:
• Available rules — to select an existing file filtering rule or create new file filtering rules
for the policy.
NOTE:
filtering rule section.
• Change — to change the primary and secondary actions associated with a file filtering
rule.
NOTE:
with a file filtering rule, refer to the Primary and Secondary File Filtering Actions section.
• Delete — to delete the file filtering rule.
Creating a new file filtering rule
1 From Policy Manager, select a submenu item On-Access or On-Demand. The policy
page for the selected submenu item appears.
2 Click on a policy.
3 Click File Filtering. The View Settings tab for the file filtering scanner appears.
4 From the Available rules drop-down list, select Create new rule.
5 Enter a unique Rule name. Give the rule, a meaningful name, so that you can easily
identify it and what it does.
For example, FilesOver5MB.
6 In Filename filtering, select Enable file name filtering to enable file filtering according
to the file names.
For example, if you type *.exe, this file filtering rule is applied to any file that has a .exe
file name extension.
7 In Take action when the file name matches, specify the names of the files that are affected
by this rule.
You can use the * and ? wildcard characters to match multiple filenames. For example, if
you want to filter out executable files, type *.exe.
8 Click Add to add the file names to the filtering list or Delete to remove file names from
the filtering list.
9 In File category filtering, select Enable file category filtering to enable file filtering
according to their file type.
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For more information about Create a new rule, refer to the Creating a new file
For more information on changing the primary and secondary actions associated