F-PROT Antivirus for UNIX - Help

This document describes how best to use F-PROT Antivirus for UNIX. All the information in this document applies to F-PROT Antivirus for Linux (x86), F-PROT Antivirus for BSD (x86), F-PROT Antivirus for Solaris (SPARC / x86), F-PROT Antivirus for Linux on IBM zSeries (S/390), F-PROT Antivirus for AIX on IBM pSeries (RS/6000) and F-PROT Antivirus for PowerPC, unless stated otherwise.

Sections that do not apply to all versions (i.e. File Server/Mail Server only or Mail Server only) are marked with an asterisk (*) or two (**), respectively.

### 1. Introduction

- 1.1 Main features
- 1.2 F-PROT Antivirus Command-Line Scanner (fpscan)
- 1.3 F-PROT Antivirus Daemon Scanner (fpscand) *
- 1.4 F-PROT Antivirus Preloadable Library Call Wrapper (fp.so) *
- 1.5 F-PROT Filesystem Monitor (fpmon) *
- 1.6 F-PROT Antivirus Mail Scanner (scan-mail.pl) **
- 1.7 F-PROT Antivirus Updater (fpupdate)
- 1.8 Additional information

### 2. Installation

- 2.1 System recommendations
- 2.2 Installation procedure
- 2.3 Location of installed files
- 2.4 Testing installation

### 3. Testing F-PROT Antivirus

- 3.1 Testing F-PROT Antivirus with Eicar

### 4. Updating

- 4.1 Updating manually
- 4.2 Automatic updating

### 5. Common functions

- 5.1 Performing a normal scan
- 5.2 Protecting your Samba network shares *
- 5.3 Scanning e-mails at mail delivery **
- 5.4 Scanning e-mails in-transit using sendmail/libmilter **
- 5.5 Scanning e-mails in-transit in Postfix **
- 5.6 Scanning e-mails in-transit in Qmail **
- 5.7 Configuring your system to run scan-mail.pl automatically at bootup **
- 5.8 Automatically run the F-PROT Antivirus Daemon Scanner at bootup *
- 5.9 Automatically run the F-PROT Filesystem Monitor at bootup *
- 5.10 Logging

### 6. Options

- 6.1 F-PROT Antivirus Command-Line Scanner options
- 6.2 F-PROT Antivirus Daemon Scanner options *
- 6.3 F-PROT Filesystem Monitor options *
- 6.4 F-PROT Antivirus Updater options

### 7. Appendix

- 7.1 How to interface with fpscand *
- 7.2 New in version 6
- 7.3 Exit codes for 'fpscan' and 'fpscand'

* These features are present in the File Server and Mail Server versions but not in the Workstation version.
** These features are present only in the Mail Server version.

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