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- Page 1 F-Secure Anti-Virus for MIMEsweeper Administrator’s Guide...
- Page 2 Although F-Secure Corporation makes every effort to ensure that this information is accurate, F-Secure Corporation will not be liable for any errors or omission of facts contained herein. F-Secure Corporation reserves the right to modify specifications cited in this document without prior notice.
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Page 3: Table Of Contents
Contents About This Guide How This Guide Is Organized ....................6 Conventions Used in F-Secure Guides ................7 Symbols ........................7 Chapter 1 Introduction Overview ........................10 MIMEsweeper Product Family ...................11 Features ........................12 Chapter 2 Installation Deployment ........................14 System Requirements....................15 Installation Steps......................15... - Page 4 Manual Updates ......................35 4.3.1 Using FSUPDATE ..................35 4.3.2 Using LATEST.ZIP ..................35 4.3.3 Updating the Virus Definition Database Remotely .........35 Technical Support Overview ..........................38 F-Secure Online Support Resources .................38 Web Club ........................39 Virus Descriptions on the Web.................. 39 About F-Secure Corporation...
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Page 5: About This Guide
BOUT UIDE How This Guide Is Organized............6 Conventions Used in F-Secure Guides ........7... -
Page 6: How This Guide Is Organized
How This Guide Is Organized F-Secure Anti-Virus for MIMEsweeper Administrator's Guide is divided into the following chapters: Chapter 1. Introduction. General information on F-Secure Anti-Virus for MIMEsweeper and other F-Secure Anti-Virus products. Chapter 2. Installation. Instructions on how to install and deploy F-Secure Anti-Virus for MIMEsweeper. -
Page 7: Conventions Used In F-Secure Guides
Conventions Used in F-Secure Guides This section describes the symbols, fonts, and terminology used in this manual. Symbols WARNING: The warning symbol indicates a situation with a risk of irreversible destruction to data. IMPORTANT: An exclamation mark provides important information that you need to consider. - Page 8 In our constant attempts to improve our documentation, we would welcome your feedback. If you have any questions, comments, or suggestions about this or any other F-Secure document, please contact us at documentation@f-secure.com.
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Page 9: Chapter 1 Introduction
NTRODUCTION Overview..................10 MIMEsweeper Product Family............ 11 Features ..................12... -
Page 10: Overview
Mydoom, cause a lot of damage around the world. The Internet is used by more and more people every day, which opens another, so far dormant channel, HTTP, for viruses to spread. F-Secure Anti-Virus Mail Server and Gateway products are designed to protect your... -
Page 11: Mimesweeper Product Family
Second, the F-Secure Anti-Virus scenario provided by Clearswift integrates with the memory resident F-Secure Anti-Virus. Finally, when using the command line interface to F-Secure Anti-Virus, you can use the Virus Manager scenario provided by Clearswift. Although not as efficient a scenario as the other two presented above, in this scenario the antivirus scanner remains resident in memory, which means the command line does not reload the scanner every time. -
Page 12: Features
Features F-Secure Anti-Virus for MIMEsweeper, as well as all other F-Secure Anti-Virus Mail Server and Gateway products, has the following features: Powerful and Always F-Secure Anti-Virus for MIMEsweeper uses the award-winning F-Secure Up-to-date Anti-Virus scanner to ensure the highest possible detection rate and disinfection capability. -
Page 13: Chapter 2 Installation
NSTALLATION Deployment ................14 System Requirements ..............15 Installation Steps ................ 15... -
Page 14: Deployment
Deployment F-Secure Anti-Virus for MIMEsweeper is always installed on the same machine where MIMEsweeper for SMTP or MIMEsweeper for Web is running. -
Page 15: System Requirements
2. Read the information in the Welcome screen and click Next continue. 3. Read the Licence Agreement. Select the I accept the agreement check box and click Next to continue. 4. Enter the keycode for F-Secure Anti-Virus for MIMEsweeper. Click Next to continue. - Page 16 Centralized administration is used for F-Secure Policy Manager-based management. Click Next to continue. For information on F-Secure Policy Manager, see the F-Secure Policy Manager Administrator's Guide. 8. Verify that all necessary components are listed in the F-Secure Setup screen. Click Next to continue.
- Page 17 CHAPTER 2 Installation 9. After the installation is ready, read the ReadMe-file for any last minute notes about the product. Click Finish to quit the setup. 10. Click Update Now to update the virus definition databases. IMPORTANT: Keep the virus databases up to date to ensure the best possible protection.
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Page 19: Chapter 3 Configuration
ONFIGURATION Configuring F-Secure Anti-Virus for MIMEsweeper....20 Configuring Content Scanner Scenario ........25 Configuring Alert Forwarding............28... -
Page 20: Configuring F-Secure Anti-Virus For Mimesweeper
The first tab in the product settings is Statistics, where you can see the product status. The second tab, Real-time Protection, covers real-time scanning settings. F-Secure Anti-Virus for MIMEsweeper does not use real-time scanning, but you can enable normal... - Page 21 CHAPTER 3 Configuration server-level on-access file scanning from here to protect the local host. It is disabled by default for performance reasons, as the MIMEsweeper servers are usually not used in file server roles. 3. Exclude the paths to MIMEsweeper for SMTP and temporary directory locations to enable real-time protection in the server.
- Page 22 Click to continue. 4. Configure how the e-mails are scanned in Manual Scanning. Manual Scanning is always used with F-Secure Anti-Virus for MIMEsweeper. The default for ‘Action to Take on Infected Files’ is Disinfect Automatically.
- Page 23 CHAPTER 3 Configuration After selecting, click to continue. 5. Define how often you want the system to remind you about the " " updates. Click Update Now Apply OK. If updates are not performed frequently, the product alerts the administrator after a certain time has passed since the last successful database update.
- Page 24 After the F-Secure Anti-Virus for MIMEsweeper configuration is complete, the next task is to configure the Content Scanner Scenario for MIMEsweeper for SMTP.
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Page 25: Configuring Content Scanner Scenario
Stripping. If cleaning is not enabled, or fails, infected items can be removed. An e-mail can be annotated to state that infected items have been removed. The scenario classifies e-mails depending on the F-Secure Anti-Virus scanning results. Cleaned and Stripped e-mails are usually classified as Cleaned and they continue being processed by other scenarios. - Page 26 On Threat Cannot Be Removed field. Click Next to continue. 9. Name how the scenario shows up in the F-Secure Anti-Virus for MIMEsweeper console. Content Scanner is the default name. Click Next to continue. 10. Check that all settings are as intended and click Finish.
- Page 27 To test the scenario, send an e-mail with the eicar.com standard antivirus test file as an attachment (see http://www.eicar.com). If the scenario and F-Secure Anti-Virus for MIMEsweeper work correctly, you will see the results in the Recent Messages screen. In this example eicar.com...
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Page 28: Configuring Alert Forwarding
Alerts are also sent if a program or an operation has encountered problems. You can configure alert forwarding in stand-alone mode using the F-Secure Management Agent Local User Interface. To configure alert forwarding: 1. Double-click the left... - Page 29 CHAPTER 3 Configuration 3. Select the E-Mail (SMTP) row. If no e-mail alerts are defined, there are no check marks on that line. The greyed boxes need to be modified in the next dialog. Click Properties to continue. 4. Click to make a new e-mail delivery rule in Product Settings.
- Page 30 The product is F-Secure Anti-Virus for Windows 2000/2003 Server. This dialog shows all F-Secure products that are installed to this system. 5. Choose an appropriate administrator e-mail address where the alerts are sent to. If you wish to send them to multiple administrators, choose an alias e-mail distribution list, or make multiple entries to the list.
- Page 31 CHAPTER 3 Configuration 6. Choose which alerts are sent to the e-mail address. The Severity levels define what the icons mean. Click when finished. Now the E-Mail (SMTP) row shows the severity levels which have been configured to be logged. In this example they are sent by e-mail to an administrator.
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Page 33: Chapter 4 Updating Virus Definition Databases
PDATING IRUS EFINITION ATABASES Overview..................34 Automatic Updates ..............34 Manual Updates ................. 35... -
Page 34: Overview
With F-Secure Automatic Update Agent, virus definition database updates are automatically retrieved when they are published. When a new virus is found, F-Secure provides a new virus definition database update and sends it to F-Secure Anti-Virus for MIMEsweeper using an intelligent UDP-based polite protocol or HTTP protocol. -
Page 35: Manual Updates
Unzip the archive and copy the files to the communication directory. 4.3.3 Updating the Virus Definition Database Remotely Follow these instructions to update the virus definition database remotely: 1. Run F-Secure Policy Manager Console. 2. Choose Import Virus Signature Database from the Tools menu. -
Page 37: Technical Support
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Page 38: Overview
If you have questions about F-Secure Anti-Virus for MIMEsweeper that are not covered in this manual or on the F-Secure support web pages, you can contact your local F-Secure distributor or F-Secure Corporation directly. -
Page 39: Web Club
FSDiag report you do not need to send the Logfile.log separately, because it is already included in the FSDiag report Web Club The F-Secure Web Club provides assistance and updated versions of F-Secure products. To connect to the Web Club, go to: http://www.F-Secure.com/anti-virus/webclub/corporate/. Virus Descriptions on the Web F-Secure Corporation maintains a comprehensive collection of virus-related information on its Web site. -
Page 41: About F-Secure Corporation
F-Secure Corporation is the fastest growing publicly listed company in the antivirus and intrusion prevention industry with more than 50% revenue growth in 2004. Founded in 1988, F-Secure has been listed on the Helsinki Stock Exchange since 1999. We have our headquarters in Helsinki, Finland, and offices in USA, France, Germany, Italy, Sweden, the United Kingdom and Japan. - Page 44 www.f-secure.com...
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