Administrator's Guide - Kerio Software Archive

Chapter 17 Antivirus Control of Email And Attachment FilteringFigure 17.5List of filtersUse the Add button to add a new filter:DescriptionText description of defined filter.Filter type (MIME type/File name)Defines if attachments will be filtered based on file names or MIME type (Multi-purposeInternet Mail Extension).Filename or file type specificationEnter either the file name (you can use the asterisk convention for e.g. filteringfiles with a certain extension — e.g. *.exe) or the MIME type name (for exampleapplication/x-msdownload or application/*). You can also choose one of the pre-setor MIME types.Block the attachment...An action will be performed as defined above the list of disabled attachments (describedabove).Accept the attachmentAttachments will not be removed from messages and no other rules will be applied.17.6 Antivirus control statisticsKerio MailServer maintains statistics of virus detection in email. The statistics can be found inthe Status → Statistics section (refer to chapter 21.6).Statistics of the antivirus control enable monitor how many infected messages come in KerioMailServer.The statistics covers the following items:• Attachments checked — total number of email messages with attachments checked by anantivirus.• Viruses found — number of detected viruses.• Prohibited filenames/MIME types found — total number of forbidden attachments (see chapter17.5).Note: Statistics are created since the last startup of the server.202