McAfee Security for Microsoft Exchange 8.6.0
Configure file filtering settings
Configure settings in a policy to detect files based on their name, type, or size and take necessary actions.
Task
1 |
From
Policy Manager, select a submenu item that has the
File Filtering scanner.
The policy page for the submenu item appears.
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2 | Click Master policy or any subpolicy you want to configure, then click List All Scanners tab. | ||||||
3 | Click File Filtering. | ||||||
4 |
In
Activation, select
Enable to activate the file filtering scanner settings for the selected submenu item.
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5 | Select Scan for Embedded files to scan embedded emails. | ||||||
6 |
In
Alert Selection, click:
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7 |
In
File filtering rules and associated actions, from the
Available rules drop-down menu, select an available rule. If you want to create new file filtering rules, select
<Create new rule...>. See
Configure file filtering rules for more instructions on how to create new file filtering rules.
File filtering settings can block restricted files such as .exe files that come as an email attachment. If the .exe file is sent as a password-protected .zip file, although the Password-Protected Files setting is configured to allow the file, the file filtering rule can block the file. Sometimes you might need to allow the legitimate restricted files that come as a password-protected .zip file. To allow the password-protected .zip file that contains restricted files such as .exe files, you must add the Password protect bypass rule from the Available rules drop-down list.
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8 | Click Change to specify actions that must be taken when a file/attachment in an email message triggers the scanner. | ||||||
9 | Click Delete, to remove an existing rule from the policy. | ||||||
10 | Click Apply to configure these settings to a policy. |