Chapter 8. Application'soperation Efficiency; Anti-Virus Protection Efficiency - KAPERSKY SECURITY 5.5 - FOR MICROSOFT EXCHANGE SERVER 2003 Administrator's Manual

CHAPTER 8. APPLICATION'S
OPERATION EFFICIENCY
Kaspersky Security for Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 provides the possibility
to fine-tune the application's operation efficiency depending on the amount and
the characteristics of the mail traffic through the Exchange servers and on the
system features of the computer: amount of RAM, operation speed, number of
processors, etc.
Additionally, you can fine-tune various efficiency levels of anti-virus and anti-
spam protection.

8.1. Anti-virus protection efficiency

In order to configure the anti-virus protection efficiency settings:
1. In the main application window select the Kaspersky Security 5.5
for Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 node in the console tree,
open it, select the node corresponding to the server you need and
follow the
2. Go to the Additional settings tab in the Anti-virus protection
window (see Figure 18) that will open.
3. In the Protection performance group of fields specify the desired
parameters, which determine the performance of anti-virus
protection:
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Anti-virus protection
The number of streams that contain objects to be scanned.
Microsoft recommends that the value of this setting equals
2 x number of processors + 1. This is the default value for this
parameter.
The number of instances of the anti-virus kernel running
simultaneously (the default value is 2 x number of processors +
1).
Specify whether the application must scan objects in RAM
without first saving these objects in the temporary folder. In
order to enable this mode, check the Max. size of object to
scan in memory box and specify the maximum size in
link in the results pane.