Cisco Cisco Email Security Appliance C190 Guía Del Usuario
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Cisco IronPort AsyncOS 7.5 for Email Configuration Guide
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Chapter 9 Anti-Virus
Testing Virus Scanning
To test the virus scanning configuration of your appliance:
Step 1
Enable virus scanning for a mail policy.
Use the Security Services > Sophos/McAfee Anti-virus page or the
antivirusconfig
command to set global settings, and then use the Email
Security Manager pages (GUI) or the
antivirus
subcommand of
policyconfig
to configure the settings for a specific mail policy.
Step 2
Open a standard text editor, then type the following character string as one line,
with no spaces or line breaks:
with no spaces or line breaks:
Note
The line shown above should appear as one line in your text editor
window, so be sure to maximize your text editor window and delete any
line breaks. Also, be sure to type the letter O, not the number 0, in the
“X5O...” that begins the test message.
window, so be sure to maximize your text editor window and delete any
line breaks. Also, be sure to type the letter O, not the number 0, in the
“X5O...” that begins the test message.
If you are reading this manual on your computer, you can copy the line
directly from the PDF file or HTML file and paste it into your text editor. If
you copy the line, be sure to delete any extra carriage returns or spaces.
directly from the PDF file or HTML file and paste it into your text editor. If
you copy the line, be sure to delete any extra carriage returns or spaces.
Step 3
Save the file with the name
EICAR.COM
.
The file size will be 68 or 70 bytes.
Note
This file is not a virus — it cannot spread or infect other files, or otherwise
harm your computer. However, you should delete the file when you have
finished testing your scanner to avoid alarming other users.
harm your computer. However, you should delete the file when you have
finished testing your scanner to avoid alarming other users.
Step 4
Attach the file
EICAR.COM
to an email message, and send it to the listener that will
match the mail policy you configured in step 1.
Ensure the that the recipient you specify in the test message will be accepted
on the listener. (For more information, see
on the listener. (For more information, see
.)
X5O!P%@AP[4\PZX54(P^)7CC)7}$EICAR-STANDARD-ANTIVIRUS-TEST-FILE!$H+H*