McAfee AVDCDE-AA-AA - Active Virus Defense Suite, User Manual

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Using the VShield Scanner
You can pass alert messages directly to an Alert Manager server, or you
can send alert messages as text (.ALR) files to a Centralized Alerting
directory that the Alert Manager server checks periodically.
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NOTE: Clearing this checkbox tells the E-Mail Scan module not to
send an alert message via Alert Manager, but does not affect other
alert messages that you configure in this property page.
As part of your anti-virus warning system, the E-Mail Scan module can
reply directly with an alert message to anybody who sends you an
infected message or attachment. You can copy that message to any other
recipient in your organization, or any number of other recipients. If you
prefer not to send a reply, you can simply have the module send an
e-mail notification, perhaps to a system administrator, whenever it
detects a virus.
Sending reply messages can aid your ability to track virus sources and
pinpoint where infectious agents enter your network; copies of these
messages sent to system administrators can help them track how
infections spread.
You can also choose to send a messages to any recipient without replying
to the source of the infected attachment. The E-Mail Scan module can
draw recipients directly from your Microsoft Exchange, Microsoft
Outlook, or other MAPI-compliant address book, or from an equivalent
Lotus cc:Mail directory. You can also enter recipient addresses directly.
The message you create for a response is a template—the module will
send the message you compose automatically to each recipient you
designate, so McAfee recommends that you enter a message that all
recipients can read and understand. Apart from the steps you take to
compose this template message, the module will not give you an
opportunity to edit the message before it sends it.
You may send one message to reply to the source of the infected message
and a different message to other recipients, but you cannot tailor the
same message for different recipients.
3. To compose your template messages, follow these substeps:
a. Select the Return reply mail to sender checkbox in the Alert
property page, then click Configure to open a standard mail
message form.
Because the module will send this message directly back to the
source of the infected e-mail message, the
To:
button and text box
are unavailable.