Releasing The Quarantined Content - F-SECURE ANTI-VIRUS FOR MICROSOFT EXCHANGE Administrator's Manual

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Releasing the Quarantined Content

1. Select the F-Secure Anti-Virus for Microsoft Exchange tab and the
Quarantine page.
2.
Select the start and end dates and times of the quarantining period
from the Start time: and End Time: drop-down menus.
3.
If you want to specify how the search results are sorted, select the
sorting criteria and order from the Sort results by: and order:
drop-down menus.
4.
Select the number of items to be displayed on a results page from the
Display: drop-down menu.
5.
Click the Query button.
6.
When the query is finished, the query results page is displayed. Click
the Reprocess All button to reprocess the displayed quarantined
content.
7.
The e-mails that have been reprocessed and found clean are
delivered to the intended recipients. They are also automatically
deleted from the quarantine. The progress of the reprocessing
operation is displayed in the Web Console.
When quarantined content is released, it is sent to the intended recipients
without any further processing. You might need to do this, for example, to
deliver a password-protected archive from the quarantine to the recipient.
In the example below the quarantined message is searched for by using
the Quarantine ID as the search criteria. The Quarantine ID is included in
the notification message delivered to the user.
WARNING: Releasing quarantined content entails a security
risk, because the content is delivered to the recipient without
being scanned.
If you need to release a quarantined message, it is done as follows: