Scanning Engines

Through the Virus & Spyware Protection view you can:

•	Enable/Disable one or more of the supported engines

•	View the licensing status

•	Configure anti-virus engine/signature updates for each one of the scanning engines

To access the Virus & Spyware Protection view click on WebSecurity Edition > Virus Scanning Policies > Virus & Spyware Protection from the navigation pane.

Enabling/disabling the scanning engines

To enable or disable one or more of the scanning engines:

1. Click on WebSecurity Edition > Virus Scanning Policies > Virus & Spyware Protection.

Screenshot 39 - Virus & Spyware Protection

2. Check or uncheck the checkboxes in the Enabled column to enable or disable scanning with the virus scanner for which the virus scanner is checked or unchecked.

NOTE: Disabling a virus scanning engine denotes that GFI WebMonitor cannot use that engine.

3. Complete Virus scanning engine setup by clicking on Save Settings

NOTE: Failing to click on Save Settings means that you will lose settings as soon as you leave the view to move to another section in GFI WebMonitor.

Configure anti-virus updates

Through the configuration view for each one of the supported scanning engines you can:

•	View the scanning engine status, version and license details

•	Check or uncheck checkboxes that enable automatic or manual scanning engine/signature updates

•	Configure the frequency with which available updates should be installed

•	Check or uncheck checkboxes that enable the configuration of an email notification message that should be sent upon successful updating of scanning engines/signatures

•	Manually update scanning engines/signatures by clicking Update Now.

Screenshot 40 - Virus & Spyware Protection: BitDefender Properties

Screenshot 41 - Norman Anti-Virus Properties

Kaspersky Scanning Engine Options

Through the configuration view for the Kaspersky scanning engine you can specify whether Virus Scanning Policies should be triggered when files are identified as:

•	Suspicious

•

Corrupted

•

Hidden

Screenshot 42 - Kaspersky Anti-Virus Properties

1. Click on WebSecurity Edition > Virus Scanning Policies > Virus & Spyware Protection > Kaspersky Anti-Virus.

2. Check or uncheck checkboxes that enable action for files identified as suspicious, Corrupted or Hidden.

3. Complete setup by clicking on Save Settings.

NOTE: Failing to click on Save Settings means that you will lose settings as soon as you leave the view to move to another section in GFI WebMonitor.