F-Secure Internet Gatekeeper for Linux/Administrator’s Guide
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iptables on your system.
Parent server
Parent Server
(self_proxy / parent_server_host / parent_server_port)
All connections are forwarded to the specified server.
If you use more than one level of proxies, specify the parent proxy.
If the parent server is used as a reverse proxy, specify the web server.
Virus scanning
Do Virus Check
(virus_check)
Enables or disables virus scanning.
We recommend that you enable this setting.
Virus scanning is not performed for HTTPS (SSL) because communication is encrypted.
What to do when a virus is detected
Action on Viruses
Delete
Delete
(action={pass,delete})
Specifies whether to delete viruses. The detection event is recorded in the log, and a
notification is sent to the administrator even if the virus is not deleted.
We recommend that you enable this setting.
Notify the administrator by e-mail
Notify Admin
(notify_admin)
Sends a notification to the administrator by e-mail. Specify the e-mail address, mail server,
and detection message in
Settings to notify the administrator
under “Common
settings”.
To separate notifications from standard e-mails, "X-Admin-Notification-Id: [number]" is added to
the header. This also prevents the notification from being detected as a virus. “Number” is a
random number, which is set as admin_notification_id in the settings file during the installation.
Quarantine
Quarantine(keep)
(quarantine)
Quarantines viruses. The viruses are quarantined in the directory that you can set in
Quarantine directory
under “Common settings”.
Specify this setting only if sufficient disk space is available.
Edit the virus detection message
Detection message
Edits the message that is shown when a virus is detected.
Enter the message by using the UTF-8 character set. The maximum length of the message
is 9000 bytes.
For information on variables and options, see “
Detection Notification Templates
”, 67.
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If you edit the message from the command line, you need to restart the service
afterwards.
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If you edit the virus detection message by using the web console, the