Setting Up Real-time Virus Scanning

To set up virus scanning:

  1. Go to Server > Mail.
  2. In the Antivirus preferences group, select the Kaspersky Antivirus option. Click OK.
  3. Go to Modules > Kaspersky Antivirus, and click the Antivirus Engine link.
  4. From the Use the following set of virus definitions menu, select the Extended item. Compared to the standard set, the extended set contains definitions for different types of malicious code (malware) other than viruses.
  5. Under the Log Settings group, specify where scanning report should be located and what amount of information should be presented in the report. Click OK.
  6. Go to Modules > Kaspersky Antivirus > Server-wide Scanning Settings tab.
  7. To specify what type of mail (incoming, outgoing or both) to scan for viruses, select the respective option from the Server-wide scanning settings menu.
  8. To allow your users to set individual virus protection settings for their mailboxes, select the check boxes for incoming mail and for outgoing mail next to the Allow personal settings field.
  9. To specify what to do with infected messages, click Scanning settings, and specify the following:
    1. Add X-header to e-mail. Leave this selected if you want Kaspersky Antivirus to add headers to scanned e-mail messages. These headers can be used for filtering mail by mail programs.
    2. Administrator's e-mail. Specify your e-mail if you want to receive scanning reports.
    3. Quarantine path. If you want antivirus to move infected messages to a quarantine directory after disinfection, specify the path to this directory.
    4. Actions on scanning completed. Use the items in the Infected row to specify what antivirus should do when an infected message is detected.
      • To move such a message with attached file to the quarantine directory, select the Move object to quarantine check box.
      • To send a notice to the message sender, select a check box under the Notify sender column.
      • To send a notice with the original message to the recipient: under the Send to recipient column, select the notice and attach original mail check boxes, and then specify what to do to the attached malicious code by selecting an item from the menu under the object column.
      • If you want to send a notice to the administrative address you previously specified, select the respective items under the Send to administrator column.

        Note: Here you can also specify what to do about the following categories of messages: messages from which malicious code was removed by Kaspersky Antivirus (Cured row); messages suspected of being infected with an unknown virus (Suspicious row); messages that contain corrupted files (Corrupted row); messages that contain code that resembles a known virus (Warning row); messages that could not be scanned because antivirus service was stopped or failed due to an internal error (Error row); messages that contained password-protected files (Protected row).

  10. Click OK to save the settings.

Now antivirus scans all mail in accordance with the settings you defined.

If want to set individual settings for a mailbox, refer to the chapter Applying Individual Scanning Settings for Mailboxes.