Anti-Virus helps protect your network from viruses and malware. Anti-Virus scans for viruses over a multitude of protocols, including HTTP, FTP, POP3, SMTP, CIFS, NETBIOS, and IMAP.
Note Anti-Virus covers the most recent and widespread threats but cannot detect all known viruses (including rare samples). It delivers “first layer defense,” efficiently handles malware outbreaks, and catches the most widespread and the most dangerous malware (commonly known as “in-the-wild” malware). Currently, the most widespread types of malware are worms, trojans, exploits, viruses, and rootkits. As new, widespread threats emerge, Anti-Virus will expand to include the most dangerous types of threats.
You can apply the Anti-Virus service to the zones. Anti-Virus examines all incoming and outgoing traffic for the selected zones and performs the action that you specify for different types of traffic. You can choose to drop the connection, delete the infected files, and/or send an alert email to the email receiver if viruses are detected.
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Anti-Virus uses signatures to identify the infected files. You must update the signatures frequently to keep the protection current. See Updating Anti-Virus Signatures.
You can enable the Anti-Virus report from the Security Services > Security Services Reports page or from the Status > Security Services Reports page to see the number of files checked and the number of viruses detected by the Anti-Virus service. See Viewing Anti-Virus Report.
You can enable the Anti-Virus Alert feature to send an alert email for virus events at a specified interval to a specified email address. See Configuring Email Alert Settings, page 340.
Refer to the following topics:
• Configuring Advanced Anti-Virus Settings
• Configuring HTTP Notification