Cisco Cisco Email Security Appliance C190 Guía Del Usuario
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Cisco AsyncOS 8.5.5 for Email Security User Guide
Chapter 12 Anti-Virus
How to Configure the Appliance to Scan for Viruses
How to Configure the Appliance to Scan for Viruses
Enabling Virus Scanning and Configuring Global Settings
You may have enabled a virus scanning engine when you ran the System Setup Wizard. Regardless,
configure settings using this procedure.
configure settings using this procedure.
Note
Depending on your feature keys, you can enable Sophos, McAfee, or both.
Procedure
Step 1
Navigate to the Security Services > McAfee page.
Or
Navigate to the Security Services > Sophos page.
Step 2
Click Enable.
Note
Clicking Enable enables the feature globally for the appliance. However, you must later enable
per-recipient settings in Mail Policies.
per-recipient settings in Mail Policies.
Step 3
After reading the license agreement, scroll to the bottom of the page and click Accept to accept the
agreement.
agreement.
Step 4
Click Edit Global Settings.
Step 5
Choose a maximum virus scanning timeout value.
Configure a timeout value for the system to stop performing anti-virus scanning on a message. The
default value is 60 seconds.
default value is 60 seconds.
Table 12-1
How to Scan Messages for Viruses
Do This
More Info
Step 1
Enable anti-virus scanning on the Email
Security appliance.
Security appliance.
Step 2
Define the groups of users whose messages you
want to scan for viruses.
want to scan for viruses.
Step 3
(Optional) Configure how you want the virus
quarantine to handle messages.
quarantine to handle messages.
Step 4
Determine how you want the appliance to
handle messages with viruses.
handle messages with viruses.
Step 5
Configure the anti-virus scanning rules for the
user groups you defined.
user groups you defined.
Step 6
(Optional) Send an email message to test the
configuration.
configuration.