To provide your e-mail users with antivirus protection, you can use the Dr.Web antivirus software developed by Doctor Web, Ltd. The default license key supports anti-virus protection of 15 mail accounts free of charge. To obtain a license that supports protection of the desired number of mailboxes, contact sales@swsoft.com.
To learn more about Dr. Web anti-virus, visit www.drweb.com.
If you did not install Dr.Web packages during installation of Plesk, install the RPM packages drweb and drweb-qmail from the Plesk distribution. The packages are located in /opt/drweb
directory.
#rpm –i ./opt/drweb-4.31.4-plesk.glibc.2.2.i586.rpm
#rpm –i ./opt/drweb/drweb-qmail-4.31-rh9.build040617.14.i586.rpm
Once the required packages are installed, the Dr.Web service will start automatically. By default, anti-virus scanner is switched off. When you or your customers enable it, all e-mail messages containing viruses or other malicious code are intercepted and placed to the directory /var/drweb/infected
. You should clean this directory from time to time, or rather schedule a task with Crontab scheduler that will do it for you.
To update virus definitions in the anti-virus database, run the following command:
# /opt/drweb/update/update.pl.
We recommend that you schedule a Crontab task to retrieve updates automatically once a day.
Anti-virus protection is enabled on a per-mailbox basis, therefore, you can switch on anti-virus protection only after you have set up mailboxes.
To set up anti-virus protection for a mailbox, proceed to the Protecting Mailboxes From Viruses section.