Chapter 5. Working With Kaspersky Anti-Virus; Anti-Virus Database Updating - KAPERSKY ANTI-VIRUS 5.0 - FOR LINUX FREEBSD-OPENBSD MAIL SERVER Administrator's Manual

CHAPTER 5. WORKING WITH
KASPERSKY ANTI-VIRUS
With Kaspersky Anti-Virus
your server from a file stored on the server for incoming and outgoing mail traffic,
including mail collected from external mailboxes.
The product's functionality lies in the tasks that the administrator can solve with
its help. The tasks implemented by Kaspersky Anti-Virus
three groups:
1. Update of the anti-virus database used to scan for viruses and
clean any infected objects.
2. Antiviral protection of the server's mail traffic.
3. Antiviral protection of the server's file systems.
Each of these groups consists of more specific tasks that implement particular
functions of the product. In this chapter, we shall consider the most interesting
tasks. Depending on the business specifics, the administrator can combine them
or make more complex.
Where possible, we shall describe setting and running tasks both locally, using
the command line, and remotely, using the Webmin program.
For all the tasks described below, it is presupposed that the
administrator has adjusted the postinstallation settings (see Chapter 4
on page 31).
Prior to running the tasks dealing with anti-virus scanning of the mail, it is
necessary to launch the process aveserver if it was not loaded during the
operating system boot.

5.1. Anti-virus database updating

An essential part of comprehensive antiviral protection is anti-virus database
updating. The anti-virus database used by Kaspersky Anti-Virus
of scanning for infected files and disinfecting them can be downloaded from
Kaspersky Lab's update servers . Some of these are
http://downloads1.kaspersky-labs.com/updates/
http://downloads2.kaspersky-labs.com/updates/
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