Setting The Operation Of The Aveserver Process - KAPERSKY ANTI-VIRUS 5.0 - FOR LINUX FREEBSD-OPENBSD MAIL SERVER Administrator's Manual

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Actions taken to self-extracting archives are ambiguous. If the archive
itself is infected, it is treated as a simple object, but if the objects inside
it are infected then it is considered a compound object. Accordingly,
actions that are taken to the archive in these cases are defined by the
parameters set in different sections of the configuration file!
You can use the following methods to select an action for a file:
Set the actions in the configuration file kav4mailservers.conf, if they are
supposed to be used as default actions (sections [scanner.object] and
[scanner.container], for more details refer to section A.2 on page 106).
Specify the actions in the alternative configuration file and use it when
launching the component.
Set them for the current session using the command line keys when
launching the kavscanner component (see section A.3 on page 115).
The syntax is the same for actions to be taken with either simple or compound
objects (for more details refer to section A.2 on page 106, sections
[scanner.object] and [scanner.container]).
6.3. Setting the operation of the
aveserver process
As has has been mentioned above, anti-virus processing of mail traffic is carried
out by means of two components - aveserver and smtpscanner - interacting with
each other.
Aveserver is launched during the operating system boot.
Connection with aveserver is established immediately when smtpscanner
accesses this process.
You can set up a number of parameters of the process operation in the
configuration file kav4mailservers.conf (section [aveserver.options]) or on the
Kaspersky Anti-Virus
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You can specify the actions remotely using the Kaspersky Anti-
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Virus On-Demand Scanner tab of the Webmin program (see
Figure 18).
If no configuration file is specified in the command line when
launching the component, then the operation parameters will
be taken from the file kav4mailservers.conf. You do not have
to specify this file expressly when launching the component.
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engine server tab of the Webmin program (see
Kaspersky Anti-Virus for Unix Mail Servers