Configuring the Anti-Virus module

To configure the Anti-Virus module:

  1. In the main window of the program web interface, open the management console tree and select the Settings section and Protection subsection.
  2. In the Anti-Virus section, click any link to open the Anti-Virus settings window.
  3. In the Protection and heuristic analysis settings group, select one of the following options in the drop-down list Use KSN:
    • Yes, if you want to use KSN.
    • No, if you do not want to use KSN.
  4. In the Protection and heuristic analysis settings group, select one of the following options in the drop-down list Use heuristic analysis:
    • Yes, if you want to use Heuristic Analysis.
    • No, if you do not want to use Heuristic Analysis.
  5. If you have enabled Heuristic Analyzer, in the Protection and heuristic analysis settings group in the Heuristic analysis level list select the level of heuristic analysis.
  6. In the Protection and heuristic analysis settings group, select one of the following options in the I consider some legitimate applications that can be exploited by hackers, to be dangerous for the corporate LAN drop-down list:
    • Yes, if you believe that such programs can be exploited by hackers to harm the computer network of your organization.
    • No, if you do not believe that such programs can be exploited by hackers to harm the computer network of your organization.

    Such legitimate programs include, for example, commercial remote administration utilities, IRC clients, dialers, file downloaders, computer system activity monitors, and password management utilities. Messages in which such programs are detected will be processed according to the rules for infected objects.

  7. If, in the I consider some legitimate applications that can be exploited by hackers, to be dangerous for the corporate LAN list, you selected Yes, in the Protection and heuristic analysis settings group in the Enable detection of some legitimate applications drop-down list select one of the following options:
    • Yes, if you want to enable detection of such applications by Kaspersky Security 8 for Linux Mail Server.
    • No, if you want to disable detection of such applications by Kaspersky Security 8 for Linux Mail Server.
  8. In the Performance settings group, in the Maximum scanning time field specify the maximum virus scan time in seconds.

    If the virus scan of a message does not finish within the time limit you specified, Kaspersky Security 8 for Linux Mail Server:

    • Interrupts the message scan.
    • Performs your configured action on the message.
    • Assigns the Error status to the message.
    • Adds the following entry to the /var/log/maillog event log:

      <scan date and time> <Kaspersky Security 8 for Linux Mail Server hostname>: not clean: message-id=<message ID>: relay-ip=<IP address of message recipient's computer>: action="Skipped": rules=<rule ID>: size=<message size>: mail-from=<mail sender's email address>: rcpt-to=<message recipient's email address>: kt-status="NotScanned, disabled by settings", av-status="Error", ap-status="Clean", as-status="Clean", ma-status="NotScanned, disabled by settings", cf-status="NotScanned, disabled by settings">

  9. In the Performance settings group, in the Maximum level for scanning field specify the maximum nesting level for messages scanned by the Anti-Virus engine.
  10. Click the Apply button.

See also

Anti-Virus protection

About computer protection against certain legitimate applications

About Anti-Virus scan statuses

Enabling and disabling Anti-Virus protection of messages

Enabling and disabling Anti-Virus scanning for a rule

Setting default values for Anti-Virus engine settings

Configuring actions on messages during Anti-Virus scanning

Configuring tags added to message subjects after Anti-Virus scanning

Configuring Anti-Virus scan restrictions and exclusions

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