Installation instructions

58  Configuring virus checking GFI MailSecurity for Exchange/SMTP
 Only check for updates – Select this option if you want GFI
MailSecurity to just check and notify the administrator whenever
updates are available for this virus scanner.
NOTE: This option will NOT download the available updates.
 Check for updates and download – Select this option if you want
GFI MailSecurity to check and automatically download any
updates available for this virus scanner.
4. Specify how often you want GFI MailSecurity to check/download
updates for this Virus Scanning Engine, by specifying an interval value
in hours.
Triggering the virus update manually
To check/download updates for the current Virus Scanning Engine
immediately, click Download updates.
Setting the Virus Scanning Engines scan priority
To configure the execution order of the Virus Scanning Engines, follow
these steps:
1. Click the GFI MailSecurity  Virus Scanning Engines node.
Screenshot 49 - Virus Scanning Engines: scan priority list
2. In the right pane, the Virus Scanning Engines are listed in
descending order of priority.
NOTE: The priority assigned to each virus scanner determines the
sequence when each anti-virus engine gets to scan the content. The
scanner with priority 0 is the first to start scanning an email. Upon
completion, the Virus Scanning Engine with priority 1 scans the email
and so on. This means that the Virus Scanning Engine listed at the top
of the list is the first to scan emails, if it is enabled.
3. To change the virus scanning execution priority, click the (up) or
(down) arrows to respectively increase or decrease the priority of
the virus scanner. Repeat the same procedure until the virus scanner
reaches the desired position in the priority/execution sequence list.
Configuring Virus Scanning optimizations
From the GFI MailSecurity  Virus Scanning Engines node you can
instruct GFI MailSecurity to stop virus scanning an item if a number of
virus scanning engines already detected a virus in that item.
To enable this option, select the Stop virus scanning the current
item, if viruses are detected by check box, and specify the number