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Protea AntiVirus Tools for Lotus Domino

The Protea AntiVirus Tools for Lotus Domino antiviral package is designed to provide virus protection for Lotus Domino. The Avast, Clam AntiVirus, Quick Heal and VirusBuster scanners are used to detect viruses.

The Protea AntiVirus Tools for Lotus Domino software does the following to ensure your protection:

• Mail is scanned as it passes through the Lotus Domino environment.
• Documents in the user databases are scanned as set by Administrator.
• Infected and suspicious mail messages and documents are either deleted or quarantined.
• Users and administrators are notified about infected and suspicious items.
• Results are saved in a log.

Protea AntiVirus Tools for Lotus Domino includes the following components:

• Monitor - that scans all incoming and outgoing mail.
• Scanner - that scans all documents in the nsf databases as set by Administrator.
• Updater - that updates antivirus databases automatically.
• Configuration database - that is used to manage the antivirus package.
• Quarantine store - that is used to keep infected and suspected objects.

Any authorized Administrator of Protea AntiVirus Tools for Lotus Domino can configure the package and view the infected documents.

Real time scanning and cleaning of the Lotus Domino e-mail traffic doesnÒt slow down mail delivery. Infected objects are blocked regardless of their format and archive or compression type used.

Mail messages monitor checks:

• Body of the mail message.
• Attached files.
• Any attached OLE objects.

On-demand scanning ensures that databases are virus-free on setup. Fully configurable scheduled database scanning offers an additional layer of protection. Scanner checks NSF bases in the directories specified by Administrator.

The following components of the documents are scanned:

• Rich Text fields.
• Attached files.
• OLE objects.

• Encrypted files cannot be checked.
• Electronic signature may be damaged during the scanning process.
• Files created in OS2 and Macintosh cannot be checked.

• Windows 2000/XP/2003 operating system.
• Lotus Domino R6.0.1 for Windows or higher.
• CPU Pentium 133 or higher.
• 64 MB RAM (128 MB recommended).
• At least 30 MB free hard disk space.

Features of Protea AntiVirus Tools for Lotus Domino:

• The Avast, Clam AntiVirus, Quick Heal and VirusBuster scanners are used.
• Different antivirus scanners can be plugged in.
• Lotus Domino R6.0.1 and higher is supported (Notes/Domino server R6, R6.5, R7 or R8).
• Lotus Domino partitioned server is supported.
• High performance allows it to check up to 18 000 messages per hour.
• Infected messages can be cured instead of being deleted.
• E-mail messages with multiple recipients are scanned once before delivery. No additional per-recipient scans are performed.
• The mail messages monitor can process multiple mail boxes.
• Infected or suspicious files are isolated in the quarantine zone, preventing network infection.
• Optimized speed.

Protea AntiVirus Tools for Lotus Domino supports plugging in different antivirus scanners and flexible antivirus configuration according to scan results. The addressor, addressee and system Administrator are notified about found viruses and the original copy of the received message is saved.

Automatic update of virus definitions directly from the Avast, ClamAV, Quick Heal and VirusBuster servers is supported. Thus, the product is kept up to date, ensuring an effective service.

During installation the Protea AntiVirus Tools configuration database is created in the Domino\Data\PAVT folder.

The Protea AntiVirus Tools, ClamAV version uses the Clam AntiVirus scanner. Before installing Protea AntiVirus Tools for Lotus Domino, make sure that the Clam AntiVirus scanner is installed.

ClamAV - Installation Instructions

Proceed to the http://www.proteatools.com/download/ download page.

Use the following link to download the 'Clam AntiVirus' software package.
Install ClamAV to your PC. ClamAV must be installed only to the c:\clamav\ folder. You should change all paths in clamd.conf if you install clamav not to c:\clamav.

After installing ClamAV, open the configuration file “C:\clamav\clamd.conf” and change it as follows:

• the value of StreamMaxLength 5M to StreamMaxLength 25M.
• the value of #LogFile to LogFile.

To launch clamd, use clamd.exe - “C:\clamav\clamd.exe”.

To check whether clamd operates properly, use the following application: clamdscan.exe – “C:\clamav\clamdscan.exe”.

If there are no errors, the installation was successful!

Each time your windows server reboots, you should launch clamd – “C:\clamav\clamd.exe”.

The ClamAV engine has a limitation concerning the size of the data stream sent to daemon clamd and the maximum size of archives being scanned. In case the limitations are exceeded, the scanner will return the following scanning result value: SCAN_FAILED.
Before you start daemon clamd for the first time, you should check and specify quite large values for the variables limiting the size of the data being scanned. The settings of the antivirus engine ClamAV are available in the file clamd.conf (the StreamMaxLength, MaxFileSize and MaxRecursion variables).

Windows Service

Open command prompt by clicking Start - Run, type cmd and hit ENTER. Navigate to C:\clamav by typing cd C:\clamav to the command prompt and hit ENTER. In C:\clamav\ execute these commands:

• C:\clamav\freshclam --install
• C:\clamav\clamd --install

- Open service manager by clicking Start - Run, type services.msc and hit ENTER.

- Double click the ClamWin Free Antivirus DB Updater service, set Startup type to Automatic and then use the START button to start the service.

- Double click the ClamWin Free Antivirus Scanner Service service, set Startup type to Automatic and then use the START button to start the service.

- Done.

- Restart Windows server.

If there were no errors, the installation was successful!

Testing and known errors

- If you followed this tutorial, everything is working fine and the services are running. You can check your log files in C:\clamav\log folder.

- It is good to start ClamWin Free Antivirus Scanner Service a few minutes later after ClamWin Free Antivirus DB Updater service because of missing database files.

- To test if clamd is running, open command prompt and type telnet localhost 3310

- If it is running you shoud have a quick response and blank command prompt screen, exit it by CTRL+C.

Installation of Protea AntiVirus Tools for Lotus Domino

• Before beginning the installation of Protea AntiVirus Tools for Lotus Domino it is necessary to have installed Lotus Domino server R6.0.1 or higher.
• Install Protea AntiVirus Tools for Lotus Domino.
• Restart Lotus Domino.

If you have other antivirus programs installed, it is necessary to remove the Protea AntiVirus Tools for Lotus Domino temporary directory from their scanning targets. This directory is specified as the TempFolder value in the pavt.ini file.

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