User Guide

CHAPTER 5. PRESET
PROTECTION PROFILES
The Kaspersky Anti-Virus distribution kit includes four additional
configuration profiles which ensure different protection levels for your mail server.
In Linux and OpenBSD distributions you will find these
profiles in the /etc/kav/5.6/kavmilter/profiles directory, and in FreeBSD they are in
the /usr/local/etc/kav/5.6/kavmilter/profiles directory. Each profile is stored in a
separate directory and contains two configuration files, kavmilter.conf and
default.conf which define application settings and default message processing
rules.
• high_overall_security – configuration profile that provides a high overall
protection for your e-mail traffic (see section 5.1 on page 33).
• high_av_accuracy – configuration profile that provides maximum
protection for your e-mail traffic (see section 5.2 on page 34).
• default – configuration profile that provides optimal balance between
protection level and performance efficiency. With this configuration, the
application does not significantly affect other processes running on the
server (see section 5.3 on page 35). The default application configuration
files is a copy of this files.
• high_scan_speed – configuration file that provides high scanning and
processing speed by reducing the application functionality (see
section 5.4 on page 35).
To use one of these profiles, you should replace the configuration files
kavmilter.conf (stored in /etc/kav/5.6/kavmilter/ directory for Linux / OpenBSD
distributions and in /usr/local/etc/kav/5.6/kavmilter/ directory for FreeBSD
distributions) and default.conf (stored in /etc/kav/5.6/kavmilter/groups.d/ directory
for Linux / OpenBSD distributions and in /usr/local/etc/kav/5.6/kavmilter/groups.d/
directory for FreeBSD distributions) with the ones from the necessary profile
directory. The application should then be restarted.
These protection profiles are described in more detail below.
5.1. High overall security profile
This profile offers the most comprehensive protection of your mail traffic. In this
mode, the application provides notification to senders, recipients, and
administrator regarding scan results. This profile includes the following functions: