Antiviral Protection Of The Server's Mail Traffic; Delivering Only Clean And Disinfected Messages - KAPERSKY ANTI-VIRUS 5.0 - FOR LINUX FREEBSD-OPENBSD MAIL SERVER Administrator's Manual

Working with Kaspersky Anti-Virus
or:
1. Edit the file /etc/kav/5.0/servers.lst, which contains the list of update
servers, place the network directory /home/bases (where the
database is stored) in the first position.
2. Turn random selection of update servers off by setting
RandomServerOrder=no in configuration file.
3. In the command line type:
kavupdater –s /etc/kav/5.0/server2.lst
–o /tmp/report.txt
5.2. Antiviral protection of the
server's mail traffic
Anti-virus filtering of mail traffic – either incoming, outgoing, or transit – is the
chief task of Kaspersky Anti-Virus
the smtpscanner component.
With this, you can protect users against infected mail messages, and deliver
clean and disinfected messages to them with notifications regarding every
message check-up.
An option of additional filtering according to the type of the attached file makes it
possible to decrease server load during mail traffic processing. These are only a
few of the functions of the product. More features of Kaspersky Anti-Virus
described below in the mail traffic protection tasks.
All the settings of the smtpscanner component are grouped in the
options [smtpscan.*] of the kav4mailservers.conf configuration file (see
section A.2 on page 106).
The most typical tasks of antiviral protection of mail traffic are reviewed below.
5.2.1. Delivering only clean and disinfected
messages
This method of configuring Kaspersky Anti-Virus
to divide the users into groups of senders and recipients. This is convenient, for
example, when you need to set up delivery only of clean and disinfected mail
messages.
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