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6.3.6 Virus Outbreak Response
The product can notify about virus outbreaks when the number of virus
threats found during the specified period of time exceeds the specified
limit.
When proactive virus threat detection is
enabled, the product analyzes inbound
e-mail messages for possible security
threats. All possibly harmful messages are
quarantined as unsafe.
Unsafe messages can be automatically
reprocessed periodically. Antivirus updates
may confirm the unsafe message as safe or
infected. For more information, see
“
Automatically Process Unsafe Messages ” ,
157 .
When proactive virus threat detection is
disabled, inbound mails are only scanned by
antivirus engines.
Send Virus Outbreak
Notification Specify whether a notification message is sent to
Virus Outbreak Recipients when the product
detects a virus outbreak.
Send Virus Outbreak
Alert Specify the alert severy level that is sent to the
administrator when the product detects a virus
outbreak. Select
Disabled to send no alerts to
the administrator.
Notify When Number
of Virus Threats
Detected Exceeds Specify the number of virus threats that must be
found during the specified period of time to issue
a virus outbreak notification.
Notify When Number
of Virus Threats
Detected Within Specify the monitored timeframe of the virus
outbreak notification.