Avira ANTIVIR EXCHANGE Support 06-2010

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June 2010

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Table of content

1. Installation AntiVir for Exchange ............................................................................. 3

2. Licensing ................................................................................................................ 5

3. Creation of new Email Filters .................................................................................. 7

4. Configuration of the Email Filter ............................................................................. 9

5. Activation of the Information Store Job ................................................................. 13

6. Quarantine ............................................................................................................ 14

7. Summary Reports (Quarantine) ............................................................................ 15

8. Update Settings .................................................................................................... 18

8.1 Update via Proxy Server ................................................................................. 19

9. Job recommendations .......................................................................................... 22

9.1 Remove Addition in subject ............................................................................. 22

9.2 Block unwanted attachments .......................................................................... 23

9.3 Advanced Spamfiltering mit separaten Quarantänen ...................................... 24

9.4 Add receiver automatically to the whitelist ...................................................... 26

9.5 Password protected Archives .......................................................................... 28

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Please, make sure to use the right installation package (Exchange 2000/2003 or 2007).

All necessary packages for the installation and all manuals as pdf-files can be found
on our website:

http://www.avira.com (http://www.avira.com/en/download/index.html)

: There are different installation packages for the different MS Exchange systems!

1. Installation AntiVir for Exchange

After downloading the installation package for AntiVir Exchange, please, start it on
your Microsoft Exchange Mailserver.

During the installation a window appears which allows you to choose the components
you want to install. Please, make sure that the management console as well as the
server components are chosen here.

After choosing the components for installation the program will ask you if there is
already an existing configuration. This window is important if you have already used
an older installation of AntiVir Exchange which should be replaced now.
You can choose one of three different possibilities:

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- Create local configuration
Choose this one for a first installation or if there is no existing configuration.

- Use existing configuration
The existing configuration will be kept for the new installation. The file
configdata.xml has to be saved into the installation directory of AntiVir
Exchange.

- Specify path to configuration manually
In case the configuration should be in a different directory you can enter the
path here.
Important: The entered path cannot be changed afterwards!

During the following steps you have to enter some administrative pre-adjustments.
These include the administrator’s email address and a possibly existing proxy server
for the internet update. These settings are saved to the configuration file “savapi.ini”
during the installation, where they can be changed afterwards.

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2. Licensing

During installation, the license file is requested and inserted correctly.

If you want to change the license later, please proceed as follows:

• Copy the file HBEDV.key which you have received via email into the

installation directory of AntiVir Exchange. There is already a directory
named “license” into which the file has to be saved. The directory “license”
contains already a file named “oem.lic”, which has to remain there.

• After copying the license file into the corresponding directory a restart of

the service “AntiVir for Exchange Control” is necessary. During the restart
you receive a hint that the service “AntiVir for Exchange” has to be
rebooted too. Please, confirm with “yes”.

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In order to check if the licence file has been entered properly, start the AntiVir
Exchange Management Console and open the menu AntiVir Monitor.
Open the properties of the server in the following window in order to check the
license information:

The license information is shown here. The values Mode: FULL and State: VALID
show that the license has been installed properly and that it is valid. If it is not,
please, check if you have used the right license file via the text file “lic_info.txt”.
Please, if necessary contact the Avira Support ([e-mail]) and send us the
license file so we can check it.

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3. Creation of new Email Filters

Directly after the installation the product is already preconfigured. Incoming emails
will already be checked for viruses and moved into quarantine in case of a virus
detection. In order to extend the email filtering and to set new jobs you can use the
existing job templates.
You will find preconfigured jobs which extend the already activated virus scanner with
spam filtering or a content / attachment filter.

In order to activate a filter job you put it via drag & drop into the “Mail-Transport-
Jobs”. There it can be activated and configured.

: If you are not sure which filter to choose we recommend the “Advanced

Spam Filtering” which contains several filtering methods and has a good detection

Other jobs check the content of emails on the basis of fingerprints. A so called
Fingerprint is the pattern of the specific file. These patterns are classified by the file
extension or its binary code.

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job example:

function:

“Basic Configuration” → “Utility Settings” → “Fingerprints”

Single fingerprints are summarized in groups. The “Images”-group for example
contains a multiplicity of known file extensions and patterns.

Such a fingerprint group (e.g. Images) is now being assigned to a job. This job filters
emails and checks if it contains such a fingerprint.

Block image files This job accesses the fingerprint group

“Images“, where it gets the information
what an image file is and how to
recognize it.

Block video files It is the same principle as before. The

difference is the group and so the
patterns.
Accessed group: “Video“

Block archive, except ZIP-files

This job accesses the fingerprint group
”Archive“. But the fingerprint “ZIP
Archive“ is set as an exception in the
properties of this job.

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4. Configuration of the Email Filter

As most of the filters are already preconfigured an adjustment is not necessary. If
you should not use these default settings the filters can be adjusted individually.
In order to open the properties for the configuration you double click on the chosen
job and a window with the properties opens automatically.

The addition [AntiVir checked] which appears in the subject of an email is

added by the job “Check with AntiVir search engine”. If you don’t want this addition
you can remove it via the properties of the job.

Every new job is deactivated by default. In order to activate it, please, change the
settings in the tab “General” to enabled: “yes”.
Every job is valid for all incoming and outgoing emails. In order to change this and to
use black- / whitelists, please, go to the tab “Addresses”.

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