How The Product Works; F-Secure Anti-Virus For Internet Gateways - F-SECURE INTERNET GATEKEEPER WINDOWS 2000-2003 SERVER 6.61 Administrator's Manual

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How the Product Works

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F-Secure Anti-Virus for Internet Gateways

F-Secure Internet Gatekeeper is a suite of real-time services to protect
the corporate network against computer viruses and malicious code
coming in web (HTTP and FTP-over-HTTP) and e-mail (SMTP) traffic.
F-Secure Internet Gatekeeper is comprised of the following
components: F-Secure Anti-Virus for Internet Gateways, F-Secure
Anti-Virus for Internet Mail and F-Secure Content Scanner Server.
F-Secure Anti-Virus for Internet Gateways is an HTTP proxy server which
acts as a gateway between the corporate network and the Internet. If a
client computer requests a file from a Web server, it asks the proxy server
to retrieve the file instead of downloading it directly from the Internet.
F-Secure Anti-Virus for Internet Gateways processes the request to make
sure that the content does not contain any malicious code and it should
not be blocked. F-Secure Anti-Virus for Internet Gateways returns only
allowed Web content and virus-free files to the requesting client. All files
and web pages downloaded via HTTP and FTP-over-HTTP are checked
for viruses and malicious code on the fly.
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Introduction