Product guide

VirusScan Console

Configure the On-Delivery Email Scan Policies using this user interface console.

Task

For option definitions, click ? in the interface.

1 From the Task list, right-click On-Delivery Email Scan Properties, then click Properties

to open the dialog box.

2 From the On-Delivery Email Scan Properties dialog box, configure the options on each tab.

Refer to

On delivery email scan policies tab definitions

DefinitionsTab

Scan Items • Specify which attachments and messages to scan.

• Scan using heuristics for potential threats that resemble malware, unknown macro

viruses, and find attachments with multiple extensions.

• Scan compressed files inside archives and decode MIME encoded files.

• Enable the email scanner to scan for unwanted programs.

• Scan email message bodies.

• Configure the sensitivity level for Artemis.

NOTE: This option is available only for On-Delivery Email Scanning.

For threat detections:Actions

• Primary action to take when a threat is detected.

• Secondary action to take if the first action fails.

For unwanted program detections:

• Primary action to take when an unwanted program is detected.

• Secondary action to take if the first action fails.

For allowed actions in the prompt dialog box, select the action.

Alerts • Notify another user when a threatened email message is detected.

• Specify the message that displays to the user when prompting for action.

Reports • Enable activity logging.

• Specify the log file name and location.

• Specify the log file size limit.

• Select the log file format.

• Specify what to log besides scanning activity.

NOTE: This tab is available only for On-Delivery Email Scanning.Notes Scanner Settings

Configure Lotus Notes specific settings.

• Scan all server databases.

• Scan server mailboxes in the specified mailbox root folder.

• Notes applications to ignore.

Part II - Detection: Finding Threats

Scanning email on-delivery and on-demand

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