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Antivirus scanning Antivirus protection

6 Configure the FortiGate unit to send an alert email when it blocks or deletes an

infected file. See “Configuring alert email” in the Logging and Message Reference

Guide.

Antivirus scanning

Virus scanning intercepts most files (including files compressed with up to 12 layers of

compression using zip, rar, gzip, tar, upx, and OLE) in the content streams for which

you enable antivirus protection. Each file is tested to determine the file type and the

most effective method of scanning the file for viruses. For example, binary files are

scanned using binary virus scanning and Microsoft Office files containing macros are

scanned for macro viruses.

FortiGate virus scanning does not scan the following file types:

• cdimage

• floppy image

•.ace

•.bzip2

•.Tar+Gzip+Bzip2

If a file is found to contain a virus, the FortiGate unit removes the file from the content

stream and replaces it with a replacement message.

If your FortiGate unit includes a hard disk and if quarantine is enabled for infected files

for the matching traffic protocol, the FortiGate unit adds the file to the quarantine list.

To scan FortiGate firewall traffic for viruses

1 Select antivirus scanning in a content profile.

For information about content profiles, see “Adding content profiles” on page 219.

2 Optionally select Quarantine in this content profile.

3 Add this content profile to firewall policies to apply virus scanning to the traffic

controlled by the firewall policy.

See “Adding content profiles to policies” on page 221.

4 Configure file quarantine settings to control the quarantining of infected files.

For information about configuring quarantine options, see “Configuring quarantine

options” on page 285.

Note: For information about receiving virus log messages, see “Configuring logging”, and for

information about log message content and format, see “Virus log messages” in the Logging

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