CHAPTER 3.
POST-INSTALLATION
SETTINGS
During installation, the system on to which you install Kaspersky Anti-Virus
®
is
analyzed and some of its configuration parameters are set automatically. A
number of parameters of the configuration file are set by default as the most
suitable for the operation of the anti-virus program (see section 3.1 on page 19).
Before you begin using the product, we advise that you install or update
the anti-virus database if it was not done during the installation, and
scan the server’s file systems for viruses!
In addition, we recommend that you set up joint operation of Kaspersky Anti-
Virus
®
with the Webmin package.
In this chapter, we shall describe the default setting of Kaspersky Anti-Virus
®
and
take an in-depth look at the configuration required to use the product.
3.1. Setting up the program by
default
All the parameters of Kaspersky Anti-Virus
®
for Unix are stored in the file
kav4unix.conf
. This is the default configuration file.
You can create your own configuration files and use them for running
current tasks or as default configuration files.
Below is a detailed explanation of the parameters set in this file by default. Based
on the information provided in this chapter you will be able to find out if
Kaspersky Anti-Virus
®
needs additional configuration (see Chapter 5 on page 39)
for maximum performance under the conditions existing in your business.
By default, Kaspersky Anti-Virus
®
is configured in such a way that when the
kavscanner
component is launched without any command line switches it will
carry out anti-virus checking of the server’s directories and file systems,
beginning with the current one.
