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F-Secure Anti-Virus 

for MIMEsweeper

Administrator’s Guide

Summary of Contents for ANTI-VIRUS FOR MIMESWEEPER -

Page 1: ...F Secure Anti Virus for MIMEsweeper Administrator s Guide...

Page 2: ...liable for any errors or omission of facts contained herein F Secure Corporation reserves the right to modify specifications cited in this document without prior notice Companies names and data used i...

Page 3: ...Family 11 1 3 Features 12 Chapter 2 Installation 13 2 1 Deployment 14 2 2 System Requirements 15 2 3 Installation Steps 15 Chapter 3 Configuration 19 3 1 Configuring F Secure Anti Virus for MIMEsweepe...

Page 4: ...FSUPDATE 35 4 3 2 Using LATEST ZIP 35 4 3 3 Updating the Virus Definition Database Remotely 35 Technical Support 37 Overview 38 F Secure Online Support Resources 38 Web Club 39 Virus Descriptions on t...

Page 5: ...5 ABOUT THIS GUIDE How This Guide Is Organized 6 Conventions Used in F Secure Guides 7...

Page 6: ...n how to install and deploy F Secure Anti Virus for MIMEsweeper Chapter 3 Configuration Instructions on how to configure F Secure Anti Virus for MIMEsweeper Content Scanner Scenario and Alerts Chapter...

Page 7: ...black is used for file and folder names for figure and table captions and for directory tree names Courier New is used for messages on your computer screen WARNING The warning symbol indicates a situ...

Page 8: ...an be used for online viewing and printing using Adobe Acrobat Reader When printing the manual please print the entire manual including the copyright and disclaimer statements For More Information Vis...

Page 9: ...9 1 INTRODUCTION Overview 10 MIMEsweeper Product Family 11 Features 12...

Page 10: ...and Gateway products are designed to protect your company s mail and groupware servers and to shield the company network from any malicious code that travels in HTTP FTP over HTTP or SMTP traffic The...

Page 11: ...us for MIMEsweeper F Secure Anti Virus for MIMEsweeper provides a powerful antivirus scanning solution that tightly integrates with Clearswift MIMEsweeper for SMTP and MIMEsweeper for Web products giv...

Page 12: ...ide protection that is always up to date Easy to Administer F Secure Anti Virus for MIMEsweeper can be managed either in stand alone mode or remotely using the powerful F Secure Policy Manager Superio...

Page 13: ...13 2 INSTALLATION Deployment 14 System Requirements 15 Installation Steps 15...

Page 14: ...14 2 1 Deployment F Secure Anti Virus for MIMEsweeper is always installed on the same machine where MIMEsweeper for SMTP or MIMEsweeper for Web is running...

Page 15: ...ter the keycode for F Secure Anti Virus for MIMEsweeper Click Next to continue Windows 2000 Server Family Windows 2000 Server with the latest Service Pack Windows 2000 Advanced Server with the latest...

Page 16: ...uch as F Secure Anti Virus for Windows Servers Click Next to continue 7 Select the administration method you want to use The default installation method is the stand alone installation In stand alone...

Page 17: ...tion databases are not yet taken into use you will see a yellow arrow on the sword and shield icon When the system recognizes the updated virus definition databases the yellow arrow will disappear It...

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Page 19: ...19 3 CONFIGURATION Configuring F Secure Anti Virus for MIMEsweeper 20 Configuring Content Scanner Scenario 25 Configuring Alert Forwarding 28...

Page 20: ...u can control all locally installed F Secure products 2 Select F Secure Anti Virus for Windows Servers and click Properties to open the product settings The first tab in the product settings is Statis...

Page 21: ...is disabled by default for performance reasons as the MIMEsweeper servers are usually not used in file server roles 3 Exclude the paths to MIMEsweeper for SMTP and temporary directory locations to ena...

Page 22: ...igure how the e mails are scanned in Manual Scanning Manual Scanning is always used with F Secure Anti Virus for MIMEsweeper The default for Action to Take on Infected Files is Disinfect Automatically...

Page 23: ...ontinue 5 Define how often you want the system to remind you about the updates Click Update Now Apply OK If updates are not performed frequently the product alerts the administrator after a certain ti...

Page 24: ...24 After the F Secure Anti Virus for MIMEsweeper configuration is complete the next task is to configure the Content Scanner Scenario for MIMEsweeper for SMTP...

Page 25: ...optional Click Next to continue 7 Select Strip the detected item to allow messages to pass through when malicious code is removed from the message and click Next Cleaning Determines whether to attempt...

Page 26: ...messages that cannot be disinfected at all it is recommended to stop them by selecting Dirty In for the On Threat Cannot Be Removed field Click Next to continue 9 Name how the scenario shows up in th...

Page 27: ...ndard antivirus test file as an attachment see http www eicar com If the scenario and F Secure Anti Virus for MIMEsweeper work correctly you will see the results in the Recent Messages screen In this...

Page 28: ...ace etc Alerts are also sent if a program or an operation has encountered problems You can configure alert forwarding in stand alone mode using the F Secure Management Agent Local User Interface To co...

Page 29: ...g Click Properties to continue 4 Click Add to make a new e mail delivery rule in Product Settings The Common Settings are used in all Product Settings rows This is used to send alerts to administrator...

Page 30: ...ure products that are installed to this system 5 Choose an appropriate administrator e mail address where the alerts are sent to If you wish to send them to multiple administrators choose an alias e m...

Page 31: ...e icons mean Click OK when finished Now the E Mail SMTP row shows the severity levels which have been configured to be logged In this example they are sent by e mail to an administrator You can also s...

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Page 33: ...33 4 UPDATING VIRUS DEFINITION DATABASES Overview 34 Automatic Updates 34 Manual Updates 35...

Page 34: ...pdate Agent transfers updates to F Secure Anti Virus for MIMEsweeper automatically and transparently You can install and use F Secure Automatic Update Agent together with licensed F Secure antivirus a...

Page 35: ...ss takes approximately one minute 4 3 2 Using LATEST ZIP You can update the virus definition database by downloading the LATEST ZIP archive from http www F Secure com download purchase updates shtml U...

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Page 37: ...37 Technical Support Overview 38 F Secure Online Support Resources 38...

Page 38: ...d F Secure Anti Virus Business Partner in your country you can submit a support request directly to F Secure There is an online Web submit form accessible through the F Secure support web pages on the...

Page 39: ...f the problem including any error messages displayed by the program and any other details that could help us replicate the problem Logfile log from the machines running F Secure products This file can...

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Page 41: ...er Communications The latest real time virus threat scenario news are available at the F Secure Antivirus Research Team weblog at http www f secure com weblog Services for Individuals and Businesses F...

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