Anti-virus

ClamAV

The integrated anti-virus is the windows version of ClamAV: ClamWin (http://www.clamwin.com)

"Clam AntiVirus is an open source (GPL) anti-virus toolkit for UNIX, designed especially for e-mail scanning on mail gateways. [...] The core of the package is an anti-virus engine available in a form of shared library.

Here is a list of the main features:

   * ...

   * advanced database updater with support for scripted updates and digital signatures

   * virus scanner C library

   * virus database updated multiple times per day (see home page for total number of signatures)

   * built-in support for various archive formats, including Zip, RAR, Tar, Gzip, Bzip2, OLE2, Cabinet, CHM, BinHex, SIS and others

   * built-in support for almost all mail file formats

   * built-in support for ELF executables and Portable Executable files compressed with UPX, FSG, Petite, NsPack, wwpack32, MEW, Upack and obfuscated with SUE, Y0da Cryptor and others

   * built-in support for popular document formats including MS Office and MacOffice files, HTML, RTF and PDF"

(source: http://www.clamav.net/about/lang-pref/en/)

Installed anti-virus software

If you use a anti-virus software which is not able to scan mail within Outlook respectively Outlook Express, you can try SpamAware to do this.

To figure out if  SpamAware is able to use your installed virus scanner click on the button "Test Virus Scanner".

SpamAware should be able to use any virus software providing the "OnAccess" (scan files on writing them to hard disk) feature.

Does your virus scanner pass the test you may check "Try to use installed virus scanner".

Common settings for any virus software you want to use with  SpamAware are:

Attention: Using this option will longer the scan of mail messages without a virus for one second.

The specific behaviour varies a bit dependent on the anti virus software you use.