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Avira GmbH Avira AntiVir Server/ Professional (UNIX) 52
9.2 Further Information
You can find further information on viruses, worms, macro viruses and other unwanted
programs at http://www.avira.com/en/threats/index.html .
AntiVir Guard is based on DazukoFS (http://www.dazuko.org), an open source software
project. DazukoFS is a kernel module which allows the AntiVir Guard daemon to access
the files.
SMTP Simple Mail Transfer Protocol: protocol for email transmission on the
Internet.
SNMP Simple Network Management Protocol: SNMP is used by network
management systems to monitor network-attached devices for events that
require administrative attention.
syslog daemon A daemon used by programs for logging various information. These reports
are written in different logfiles. The syslog daemon configuration is in
/etc/syslog.conf.
Test version Without a license file, AntiVir Server/ Professional runs as a test version and
it only reports the test virus EICAR. It will not block access to infected files.
The update function is not available.
Unwanted programs The name for programs that do not directly harm the computer but are not
wanted by the user or administrator. These can be backdoors, dialers, jokes
and games. AntiVir detects various types of unwanted programs.
VDF (Virus Definition
File)
A file with known signatures for viruses and unwanted programs. In many
cases it is enough for an update to load the most recent version of this file.
VFS Virtual File System
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