Avira antivir webgate suite User Manual

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Avira AntiVir WebGate

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Configuration

You can configure Avira AntiVir WebGate for optimum performance. The most 
common settings are suggested in this Chapter. You can modify these settings 
anytime, to adjust WebGate to your requirements.

You will be guided step by step through the configuration process:

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 – Page 18 you can read about the different 

possibilities for WebGate’s network setting.

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 – Page 23 is a description of integrating WebGate as 

FTP proxy.

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 – Page 24 presents the integration of WebGate 

over ICAP interface.

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 – Page 26 we describe the parameter entries for Product, 

Scanner, Updater and Access Control List.

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notification web pages and emails generated by WebGate.

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 – Page 38 describes how you can test the 

performance of WebGate, after completing the configuration.

4.1

Monitoring HTTP Traffic

WebGate can scan the entire incoming and outgoing HTTP traffic for viruses and 
unwanted programs. It can even scan the web-based FTP transfers (FTP over 
HTTP). WebGate works with the existing proxy servers and supplements them, but 
it can also be set as stand-alone HTTP proxy.

Depending on the network and configuration, there are more possibilities for 
setting Avira AntiVir WebGate as "guard" between the Client computer and the 
Internet. In all these cases, the user does not have direct connection to the 
Internet, but through WebGate.

There are three different configurations:

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