Antiviral Protection Of File Systems; Launching Directory Scan From The Command Line - KAPERSKY ANTI-VIRUS 5.0 - FOR LINUX FREEBSD-OPENBSD MAIL SERVER Administrator's Manual

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5.3. Antiviral protection of file
systems
Antiviral protection of the server's file systems is carried out by the kavscanner
component, which scans the files stored on the server for viruses, and processes
infected and suspicious files according to the settings. The object processing can
be of an exceptionally informational nature (outputting the information to the log
and to the server's console, administrator notification) or can result in object
changing (disinfection, quarantine, or deletion).
All the settings of the kavscanner component are grouped in the options
[scanner.*] of the kav4mailservers.conf configuration file (see section
A.2 on page 106).
Scanning of your server's file system can be launched either from the command
line or on schedule using the standard cron utility. You can set up scanning of all
the server file systems or an individual directory or file.
Below is a detailed description of the most typical tasks of server file system
protection.
The process of checking the whole server for viruses is resource-
intensive. It should be kept in mind that when it runs, the server's
overall performance drops, therefore running any other processes at the
same time is not recommended. To avoid these problems we advise
that you scan individual directories instead.
5.3.1. Launching directory scan from the
command line
One of the tasks accomplished using Kaspersky Anti-Virus
server's individual directories for viruses.
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is scanning the