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About Anti-Virus protection

One of the main tasks of Kaspersky Security is to scan email messages for the presence of viruses and other threats, and cure infected objects using information from the current (latest) version of the Anti-Virus databases.

Messages are scanned for viruses and other threats by Anti-Virus engine. Anti-Virus engine scans the body of the message and all attached files in any format (attachments) using the Anti-Virus databases. Anti-Virus module also allows detecting and blocking email attachments that have been intended for a limited scope of recipients and created to perpetrate attacks aimed at software vulnerabilities. Based on the scan results, Anti-Virus assigns the message one of the virus scan statuses and adds a tag with the status at the beginning of the message subject (Subject field).

The Anti-Virus engine is enabled by default.

Depending on the status assigned, the application performs actions in accordance with the message processing rule settings. You can specify actions to be performed by the application on messages with a certain status. Before processing a message, the application saves a copy of it in Backup.

You can specify the maximum size of attachments to be scanned and determine the objects to be skipped during Anti-Virus scanning. Attachments in certain formats and with certain names can be excluded from the scan.

The Anti-Virus engine is enabled by default. If required, you can disable Anti-Virus module or disable Anti-Virus scanning for any rule.

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Last update: 17/02/2015 2:18:46 PM
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