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6. Daemon Process: Integrating
Daemon Process: Integrating
Daemon Process: Integrating
Daemon Process: Integrating
Anti
Anti
Anti
Anti----Virus Protection in Clients
Virus Protection in Clients
Virus Protection in Clients
Virus Protection in Clients
6.1. Features of the Daemon
program
Describing functions and features of the program.
The Daemon anti-virus process,
kavdaemon
, is designed to integrate anti-
virus protection (search and deletion of viruses) in client software (e.g.
Monitor) on a computer running xBSD. Daemon operates as a system
process and inherits all the functions of Scanner, therefore our description
of the Scanner capabilities can be applied to Daemon.
Unlike the anti-virus scanner Daemon loads virus-definition databases into
the memory just once, when started the first time. It significantly decreases
the amount of time required to perform a virus check. This feature
determines the scope of application of the Daemon program, namely WEB
servers and mail systems under xBSD. All the objects incoming to these
systems must be promptly checked for viruses, and this is the task that can
be accomplished with the daemon process.
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