User Guide

34 Kaspersky
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SMTP-Gateway 5.0
5. Then each of the received objects will be sent to the anti-virus
engine that processes the received object and returns it with the
status assigned to it.
A message may be assigned one of the following statuses in the
process of checking:
o Clear – Message is clean.
o Infected – Message is infected and cannot be disinfected
or disinfection has not been attempted.
o Disinfected – Infected object has been successfully disin-
fected.
o Suspicious – Object is suspected of being infected by an
unknown virus or by a new modification of a known virus
o Protected – Scanning failed because the message is
password-protected (for instance, it’s an archive)
o Error – Object is corrupted or an error occurred during the
scan.
6. Depending on the object status, the application performs an action
as specified in the settings for this group (basic actions).
7. After the anti-virus scan of all components of the message and
performing actions on these components, actions will be performed
on the message as a whole (additional actions).
The tasks that can be performed with objects are of the following two types:
• Basic actions:
• Deliver messages without changes (see para 5.2.3 page 35).
• Deliver only clear or disinfected messages (see 5.2.3.2
page 36).
• Delete infected attachments (see para 5.2.3.3 page 37).
• Replace infected attachments with messages created using
templates (see section 5.2.3.4 ob page 38).
• Additional actions:
• Block messages delivery to the recipients (see section 5.2.4 on
page 38).
• Deliver all messages, including infected messages (see sec-
tion 5.2.4.2 on page 40).