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Webwasher 6.0.1 Anti-Malware User's Guide - McAfee

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Content Security<br />

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In general, the risk of obtaining false negatives is rather high if the selected<br />

security level is not very strict. Vice versa, there is a higher risk of obtaining<br />

false positives when the security level is increased.<br />

The overall Proactive Scanning security level is by default set to Medium.<br />

After modifying this security level, all options and actions configured so far for<br />

the Proactive Scanning filter are reset by the configuration wizard according to<br />

the new level. The wizard then returns you to the Proactive Scanning tab.<br />

Use the radio buttons next to the security levels and the Do it now button to<br />

configure an overall security level for Proactive Scanning:<br />

• Relaxed<br />

If this option is enabled, mobile code that is most obviously malicious will<br />

be blocked, while all other mobile code is allowed.<br />

This adds an additional security level to virus scanning, while keeping the<br />

risk of overblocking low.<br />

Mobile code that is most obviously malicious, as well as mobile code that<br />

will perform operations not required for that kind of mobile code, will be<br />

blocked, while all other mobile code is allowed.<br />

This implements a security level with a balanced ratio between protection<br />

against unknown, malicious code, and the risk of overblocking.<br />

At this level, the false positives risk can be represented in comparison to<br />

the false negatives risk as follows:<br />

• Medium<br />

If this option is enabled, mobile code that is most obviously malicious, as<br />

well as mobile code that will perform operations not required for that kind<br />

of mobile code, will be blocked, while all other mobile code is allowed.<br />

This implements a security level with a balanced ratio between protection<br />

against unknown, malicious code, and the risk of overblocking.

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