McAfee GSSCDE-AA-DA User Guide - Page 124

File filtering

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McAfee® GroupShield™ 7.0 User Guide Policy Manager 10 Scanners and filters „ Notify recipient - to send an alert message to the recipient, when the recipient is not in the same domain as Microsoft® Exchange Server 2003/2007. Secondary actions for On-Demand (Find Banned Content), On-Demand (Remove Banned Content), and On-Demand (Full Scan) scan include: „ Log - to record the detection in a log. „ Quarantine - to take a copy of the item and store it in the quarantine database. „ Notify administrator - to send an alert message to the email administrator. File filtering You can configure the file filtering settings for a selected policy. 1 From Policy Manager, select a submenu item that has a file filter. The policy page for the submenu item appears. 2 Choose a desired policy. 3 Click File Filtering. The View Settings tab for the file filtering scanner appears. 4 In Activation, select or deselect Enable to enable or disable the file filtering scanner settings for the policy. 5 In Alert selection, specify which alert will be used when an infected mail triggers a file filtering rule. You can also select an existing alert or use Create to create a new alert. For step-by-step instructions on creating a new alert, refer to Creating a new alert on page 120. Note If the alert text is not shown and you would like to preview it, click View/Hide to display the text. If the alert text is displayed, click View/Hide to hide it. 6 From File filtering rules and associated actions, use: „ Available rules - to select an existing file filtering rule or create new file filtering rules for the policy. To create a new file filtering rule, select Create new rule. The File Filtering Rule page appears. You can use the file filtering rules to monitor and restrict the movement of files. You can even filter files according to their file name, category type, and size. For more information about Create a new rule, refer to Creating a new file filtering rule on page 125. Note 124

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McAfee
®
GroupShield
7.0 User Guide
Policy Manager
Scanners and filters
10
Notify recipient
— to send an alert message to the recipient, when the recipient is not
in the same domain as Microsoft
®
Exchange Server 2003/2007.
Secondary actions for
On-Demand (Find Banned Content)
,
On-Demand (Remove Banned Content)
,
and
On-Demand (Full Scan)
scan include:
Log
— to record the detection in a log.
Quarantine
— to take a copy of the item and store it in the quarantine database.
Notify administrator
— to send an alert message to the email administrator.
File filtering
You can configure the file filtering settings for a selected policy.
1
From
Policy Manager
, select a submenu item that has a file filter. The policy page for
the submenu item appears.
2
Choose a desired policy.
3
Click
File Filtering
. The
View Settings
tab for the file filtering scanner appears.
4
In
Activation
, select or deselect
Enable
to enable or disable the file filtering scanner
settings for the policy.
5
In
Alert selection
, specify which alert will be used when an infected mail triggers a file
filtering rule. You can also select an existing alert or use
Create
to create a new alert.
If the alert text is not shown and you would like to preview it, click
View/Hide
to
display the text. If the alert text is displayed, click
View/Hide
to hide it.
6
From
File filtering rules and associated actions
, use:
Available rules
— to select an existing file filtering rule or create new file filtering
rules for the policy.
To create a new file filtering rule, select
Create new rule
. The
File Filtering Rule
page
appears. You can use the file filtering rules to monitor and restrict the movement
of files. You can even filter files according to their file name, category type, and
size.
Note
For step-by-step instructions on creating a new alert, refer to
Creating a new alert
on
page 120
.
Note
For more information about
Create a new rule
, refer to
Creating a new file filtering rule
on page 125
.