Overview of virus scanning

Virus scanning is an email scanning service that scans incoming and outgoing email messages for viruses. The service plays a critical role in pre-empting the proliferation of viruses and securing your network from related violations.

- Important: You must enable the Mail Scanning service to avail of virus scanning capability.

The Virus Scanning service interfaces with the Mail Scanning service to integrate with the mail server and extend its virus scanning capabilities to incoming and outgoing email messages. When an email scan request is received by the control panel server, preliminary scanning is performed by the Mail Scanning service which then passes the scan request to the Virus Scanning service. The service scans email messages and attachments for patterns or characteristics (finger-prints) indicative of a virus before the email message is delivered to the mail server. If the email message is infected, it can be deleted, quarantined, or cleaned and delivered to the mail server.

The control panel leverages the services of the virus scanning application Clam AntiVirus to scan email messages for viruses. For detailed information on Clam AntiVirus, please visit http://clamav.elektrapro.com/.