For each policy group, you can specify virus policies. Symantec Brightmail Gateway comes with preconfigured virus policies that are enabled by default. When you select virus policies for a policy group, you select from these preloaded policies.
See Default email virus policies.
See Default IM virus policies.
You can, however, also make your own custom virus policies and apply them to your policy groups. Or, you can modify the default virus policies to fine tune them or to expand or reduce their scope.
See Creating email virus policies.
See Modifying email virus policies.
Note:
By default inbound and outbound email messages containing a mass-mailing worm, and unscannable messages, including malformed MIME messages, will be deleted. If you are concerned about losing important messages, you may want to create a different filter policy for unscannable messages and apply that new filter policy to some or all of your groups.
To select virus policies for a policy group
In the Control Center, click Administration > Users > Policy Groups.
On the Policy Groups page, click the group for which you want to select virus policies.
Optionally, click View next to any policy to view the details of that policy.
If desired, under Email, check Enable inbound email virus scanning for this policy group, and then select the desired policy from each of the following drop-down lists:
If desired, under Email, check Enable outbound email virus scanning for this policy group, and then select the desired policy from each of the following drop-down lists:
If desired, under Instant Messaging, check Enable inbound instant messaging virus scanning for this policy group. You can view the following policy:
If desired, under Instant Messaging, check Enable outbound instant messaging virus scanning for this policy group. You can view the following policy: