Overview
Chapter 10
Using VStream Antivirus
This chapter explains how to use the VStream Antivirus engine to block security
threats before they reach your network.
This chapter includes the following topics:
Overview ..................................................................................................263
Enabling/Disabling VStream Antivirus....................................................265
Viewing VStream Signature Database Information .................................266
Configuring VStream Antivirus ...............................................................267
Updating VStream Antivirus ....................................................................279
Overview
The NetDefend firewall includes VStream Antivirus, an embedded stream-based
antivirus engine based on Check Poin
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at the kernel level.
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and support for unlimited file sizes; and since VStream Antivirus stores only
minimal state information per connection; it can scan thousands of connections
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When VStream Antivirus detects malicious content, the action it takes depends on
the protocol in which the virus was found. See the table below. In each case,
t Stateful Inspection and Application
elligence technologies, which performs virus scanning
VStream Antivirus scans files for malicious content on the fly, without
downloading the files into intermediate storage. This means minimal added laten
concurrently. In order to scan archive files on the fly, VStream Antivirus perfo
real-time decompression and scanning of ZIP, TAR, and GZ archive files, with
support for nested archive files.
VStream Antivirus blocks the file and writes a log to the Event Log.
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