Configuring Clam AV Settings
ClamAV is a free, cross-platform and open-source antivirus software toolkit able to detect many types of malicious software, including viruses. It is a powerful, fast, and accurate virus detection engine that uses a scalable, multi-threaded daemon to scan for viruses. As using third party rules has additional memory requirements, your SpamTitan Gateway should have a minimum of 4GB before enabling this option.
When virus checking is enabled, ClamAV is the default antivirus engine for SpamTitan Gateway. Go to Content Filtering > Viruses > Clam AntiVirus to view and manage settings.
The table below describes the different ClamAV settings.
Field | Description |
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Database Last Update: | Displays date and time the last ClamAV update was applied. |
Database Version: | Displays:
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Update Now: | Click Start to check for the latest updates to the virus definition database. |
Enable Automatic Updates: | Click Enable to automatically retrieve and apply ClamAV virus definitions. If enabled, select a frequency of every hour, every day or every week. The recommended setting is enabled, with a frequency of every hour selected. Click Disable to disable automatic updates. |
Use Google Safebrowsing Database: | Click Enable to enable the use of the Google Safebrowsing database by ClamAV. Email links are scanned to check if they are on the safe browsing list and block them if they are. If a suspect link is detected, the spam score of the email is boosted by three points. WarningEnabling this setting increases memory usage. See safebrowsing.google.com |
Use Third-party Databases: | Enabling this option adds several third-party databases to ClamAV: WarningEnabling this setting increases memory usage. |
Treat OLE Macros as: | Specify what action to take on files with OLE Macros. The options are:
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