GFI AVG Anti-Virus Updates for GFI MailSecurity, RNW, 250-499u, DEU User Manuals

Table of Contents

• 1 Introduction

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  • 1.1 Introduction to GFI MailSecurity

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  • 1.2 Using this manual

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    • 1.2.1 Manual structure

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    • 1.2.2 Terms and conventions used in this manual

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• 2 About GFI MailSecurity

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  • 2.1 GFI MailSecurity components

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    • GFI MailSecurity scan engine

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    • GFI MailSecurity web interface

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    • GFI MailSecurity Switchboard

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  • 2.2 How GFI MailSecurity works

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    • 2.2.1 Incoming email

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    • 2.2.2 Outgoing email

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    • 2.2.3 Other features

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  • 2.3 Licensing

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• 3 Monitoring the GFI MailSecurity status

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  • 3.1 Introduction

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  • 3.2 Status and statistical information

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    • Services

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    • Quarantine Statistics

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    • Email Statistics

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  • 3.3 Email processing logs

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    • Filtering the email processing logs

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  • 3.4 Virus scanning engine updates

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• 4 General settings

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  • 4.1 Introduction

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  • 4.2 Configuring the administrator’s email address

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  • 4.3 Configuring proxy server settings for automatic updates

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  • 4.4 Adding Local Domains

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  • 4.5 SMTP server bindings

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  • 4.6 Managing local users

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    • 4.6.1 GFI MailSecurity installed in Active Directory mode

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      • GFI MailSecurity installed on the Microsoft Exchange machine

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    • 4.6.2 GFI MailSecurity installed in SMTP mode

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      • To add a new local user:

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      • To remove a local user:

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• 5 Configuring Virus Scanning Engines

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  • 5.1 Introduction

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  • 5.2 AVG configuration

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    • AVG web site

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    • 5.2.1 AVG LinkScanner

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  • 5.3 Kaspersky configuration

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    • Kaspersky web site

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  • 5.4 BitDefender configuration

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    • BitDefender website

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  • 5.5 McAfee configuration

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    • McAfee website

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  • 5.6 Norman configuration

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    • Norman website

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  • 5.7 Virus scanner actions

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  • 5.8 Virus scanner updates

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    • Downloading anti-virus updates manually

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  • 5.9 Setting the Virus Scanning Engines scan sequence

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  • 5.10 Configuring Virus Scanning optimizations

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  • 5.11 Configuring Information Store Scanning

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    • 5.11.1 Information Store Scanning

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    • 5.11.2 VSAPI settings

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• 6 Configuring other mail filters

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  • 6.1 Content Filtering

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    • 6.1.1 Introduction

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    • 6.1.2 Creating a Content Filtering rule

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      • Step 1: Configuring basic rule settings

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      • Step 2: Configuring terms to block

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      • Step 3: Configuring the actions to take on detected emails

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      • Step 4: Specifying the users to apply this rule to

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    • 6.1.3 Enabling/disabling rules

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    • 6.1.4 Removing content filtering rules

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    • 6.1.5 Modifying an existing rule

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    • 6.1.6 Changing rule priority

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  • 6.2 Attachment Filtering

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    • 6.2.1 Introduction

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    • 6.2.2 Creating an Attachment Filtering rule

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    • 6.2.3 Enabling/disabling rules

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    • 6.2.4 Removing attachment rules

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    • 6.2.5 Modifying an existing rule

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    • 6.2.6 Changing the rule priority

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  • 6.3 Decompression engine

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    • 6.3.1 Introduction

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    • 6.3.2 Configuring the decompression engine filters

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      • Check password protected archives

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      • Check corrupted archives

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      • Check for recursive archives

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      • Check size of uncompressed files in archives

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      • Check for amount of files in archives

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      • Scan within archives (attachment checking)

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    • 6.3.3 Enable/disable decompression filters

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  • 6.4 The Trojan & Executable Scanner

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    • 6.4.1 Introduction

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      • What is a Trojan horse?

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      • How does the Trojan & Executable Scanner work?

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    • 6.4.2 Configuring the Trojan & Executable Scanner

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  • 6.5 The Email Exploit Engine

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    • 6.5.1 Introduction

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      • What is an exploit?

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      • What is an e-mail exploit?

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      • Difference between Anti-Virus software & Email Exploit Detection software

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    • 6.5.2 Configuring the Email Exploit Engine

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    • 6.5.3 Enabling/Disabling email exploits

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  • 6.6 The HTML Sanitizer

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    • 6.6.1 Introduction

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      • Why remove HTML scripts?

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    • 6.6.2 Configuring the HTML Sanitizer

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    • 6.6.3 HTML Sanitizer Whitelist

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      • Adding an HTML Sanitizer Whitelist entry

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      • Deleting an HTML Sanitizer Whitelist entry

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• 7 Quarantine

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  • 7.1 Introduction

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  • 7.2 The Quarantine Store

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    • 7.2.1 Searching for quarantined emails

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      • Content search

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      • Search by date

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    • 7.2.2 Search Folders

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      • Creating a new Search Folder

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      • Modifying a Search Folder

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      • Deleting Search Folders

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    • 7.2.3 Approving quarantined emails

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      • Sanitize and Approve

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    • 7.2.4 Permanently deleting quarantined emails

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      • Delete and Notify

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    • 7.2.5 Rescanning quarantined emails

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    • 7.2.6 Viewing the full security threat report of an email

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    • 7.2.7 Downloading quarantined email

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  • 7.3 Quarantine Action Forms

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    • 7.3.1 Enabling Quarantine Action Forms

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    • 7.3.2 Reviewing quarantined emails

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    • 7.3.3 Logging quarantine actions

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  • 7.4 Quarantine RSS feeds

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    • 7.4.1 Enabling Quarantine RSS Feeds

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    • 7.4.2 Subscribing to Quarantine RSS feeds

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      • Subscribing to all enabled Quarantine RSS feeds

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      • Subscribing to a search folder Quarantine RSS feed

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    • 7.4.3 Securing access to the GFI MailSecurity Quarantine RSS feeds

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  • 7.5 Directory Harvesting

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    • 7.5.1 Configuring Directory Harvesting

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• 8 Reporting

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  • 8.1 Introduction

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  • 8.2 Enabling reporting

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  • 8.3 Configuring the database

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    • Configuring a Microsoft Access database backend

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    • 8.3.1 Configuring a Microsoft SQL Server database backend

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• 9 Miscellaneous

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  • 9.1 Patch Checking

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  • 9.2 Version Information

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  • 9.3 Tracing

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  • 9.4 Failed emails

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    • 9.4.1 Reprocessing legitimate emails that fail

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      • GFI MailSecurity installed on Microsoft Exchange Server 2007/2010

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      • GFI MailSecurity installed on Microsoft Exchange Server 2003

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      • GFI MailSecurity installed on Gateway server

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    • 9.4.2 Failed emails notifications

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  • 9.5 Notification templates

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    • Notifications

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    • Templates

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    • 9.5.1 Customizing notification templates

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      • Variables used in XSL-based notification templates

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  • 9.6 Monitoring Virus Scanning API

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    • 9.6.1 Performance counter in Windows 2003 Server

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    • 9.6.2 Performance counter in Windows 2008 Server

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    • 9.6.3 Performance monitor counters

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• 10 Troubleshooting

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  • 10.1 Introduction

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  • 10.2 Knowledge Base

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  • 10.3 Web Forum

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  • 10.4 Common issues

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  • 10.5 Request technical support

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  • 10.6 Build notifications

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• 11 Glossary

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