Chapter 1. Kaspersky Anti-Virus ®Tm For Linux, Freebsd, And Openbsd Mail Servers - KAPERSKY ANTI-VIRUS 5.0 - FOR LINUX FREEBSD-OPENBSD MAIL SERVER Administrator's Manual

CHAPTER 1. KASPERSKY ANTI-
VIRUS
FREEBSD, AND OPENBSD
MAIL SERVERS
Kaspersky Anti-Virus
(hereinafter also referred to as Kaspersky Anti-Virus
for Unix Mail Servers) is designed for anti-virus processing of mail traffic and
file systems of servers running Linux, FreeBSD, or OpenBSD operating systems
and using one of the following mail programs: sendmail, Postfix, qmail, Exim.
This software product allows the user to:
Check for viruses in all mounted file systems , as well as incoming and
outgoing mail messages, as part of the server's SMTP traffic .
Detect infected, suspicious, corrupted, and password-protected files, as
well as files that fail to be scanned because of an error.
Carry out anti-virus processing (disinfect) infected objects in file systems
and mail messages.
Move to the quarantine directory all infected, suspicious, and corrupted
objects of the server file system and its mail traffic. For the latter,
disinfected and password-protected files can also be quarantined, as well
as files that fail to be scanned because of an error.
Process mail traffic according to rules preset for groups of senders and
recipients.
Provide secondary filtering of mail traffic by name and type of attached
objects, and use individual processing rules for the filtered objects.
Notify sender, recipient, and group administrator about mail messages
that contain infected, suspicious, and other objects.
Update the program's anti-virus database. Anti-virus database updates
are downloaded from Kaspersky Lab's update servers.
The anti-virus database is used in the process of searching and cleaning
infected objects. Based on its contents, during the scan, each file is
analyzed for the presence of viruses and the file's code is compared to
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