Virus scanner actions

Screenshot 38 - Virus Scanning Engine: Configuration page (Actions Tab)

In GFI MailSecurity, you can configure what each of the installed Virus Scanning Engines should do whenever an infected email is detected. To configure the actions of a virus scanner:

1. Select the virus scanner that you want to configure and click on the Actions tab.

2. Choose one of the following options:

Quarantine emails - Select this option if you want to quarantine all virus infected emails detected by this Virus Scanning Engine. All quarantined emails are subsequently reviewed (approved/deleted) by the administrator.
Delete emails - Select this option to delete all virus infected emails detected by this Virus Scanning Engine.

NOTE: This option overrides the settings made in the General tab. i.e. If in the General tab, you selected Block all emails containing a macro (i.e. quarantine all emails even the ones having a genuine macro) but at the same time you have enabled the Delete emails option, ALL emails containing a macro will be deleted.

3. To send email notifications whenever an infected email is detected, enable any of the following options:

Notify local user - Select this option if you want to notify the recipient whenever an infected (inbound) mail is detected by this virus scanner. If the infected/blocked email is outbound, a notification is sent to the sender.
Notify administrator - Select this option if you want to notify the administrator whenever an infected email is detected by this virus scanner.

4. Enable the Log occurrence to file option if you want to log the virus scanning activity to a specified log file. Enter the name of the log file in the File name of log file edit box.