I N T R O D U C T I O N
allows detection and deletion of all currently known types of viruses and
mailware codes including:
•
polymorphic or self-encoding viruses;
•
stealth or invisible viruses;
•
viruses for Windows 9x, Windows NT, UNIX, OS/2;
•
new viruses for Java applets;
•
macroviruses infecting Word documents, Excel spreadsheets,
PowerPoint presentations, Help files etc.;
•
network worms;
•
Trojans.
For classification of viruses that can be detected and deleted using
Kaspersky Anti-Virus for xBSD Mail Server
refer to
Appendix C
.
The package contains a set of anti-virus applications and utilities.
The
kavscanner
(
Scanner
) enables you to check for viruses in your opera-
tion system on demand
2
.
The
kavdaemon
anti-virus process
(Daemon)
allows integration of the vi-
rus check process into your programs, and
kavmonitor,
the anti-virus file-
monitor
(
Monitor)
, continuously keeps checking for viruses in files of your
FreeBSD filesystem that are started or opened.
The
slogan
program
(Slogan)
was developed to process and summarize
data within the performance reports of the Scanner and the Daemon pro-
grams.
Kavupdater
(Updater)
enables you to update virus-definition databases
that are used by other components when checking for viruses.
2
If there are other computer drives mounted under your filesystem, files on these drives
will be also virus-checked. Hereinafter when describing the virus-checking process on
your computer we mean your computer filesystem and all the files mounted under it.
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