Chapter
6
6. Daemon Process: Integrating
Anti-Virus Protection in Clients
6.1. Features of the Daemon
program
Describing functions and features of the program.
The Daemon anti-virus process,
kavdaemon
, is designed to integrate anti-
virus protection (search and deletion of viruses) in client software (e.g.
Monitor) on a computer running xBSD. Daemon operates as a system
process and inherits all the functions of Scanner, therefore our description
of the Scanner capabilities can be applied to Daemon.
Unlike the anti-virus scanner Daemon loads virus-definition databases into
the memory just once, when started the first time. It significantly decreases
the amount of time required to perform a virus check. This feature deter-
mines the scope of application of the Daemon program, namely WEB serv-
ers and mail systems under xBSD. All the objects incoming to these sys-
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