ESET MAIL SECURITY User Manual

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ESET Mail Security
Dear user, you have acquired ESET Mail Security - probably the best security system running
under the Linux/BSD/Solaris OS. As you will soon nd out, the system using the state-of-the-art
ESET scanning engine, has unsurpassed scanning speed and detection rate, combined with a
very small footprint that makes it the ideal choice for any Linux/BSD/Solaris OS server.
In the rest of this chapter we review a key features of the system.
•The ESET anti-virus scanning engine algorithms provide the highest detection rate and the
fastest scanning times.
•The ESET Mail Security is developed torun on the single-processoras wellas on the multi-
processor units.
•ItincludesuniqueadvancedheuristicsforWin32wormsandback-doors.
•Inbuiltarchiversunpackarchivedobjectswithouttheneedforanyexternalprograms.
•Inordertoincreasespeedandeciencyofthesystem,itsarchitectureisbasedontherunning
daemon (resident program) where all the scanning requests are sent to.
•Allexecutivedaemons(exceptesets_dac)runundernon-privilegeduseraccounttoenhance
security.
•Thesystemsupportsselectivecongurationspecicforuserorclient/serveridentication.
•Sixlogginglevelscanbeconguredtogetinformationaboutsystemactivityandinltrations.
•TheESETMailSecurityinstallationdoesnotrequireexternallibrariesorprogramsexceptfor
LIBC.
•Thesystemcanbeconguredtonotifyanypersonincaseofdetectedinltration.
•Conguration,administrationandlicensemanagementcanbeprovided usingintuitiveand
user friendly World Wide Web Interface.
•The system supports ESET Remote Administration for management in large computer
networks.
•Thesystemcontainsanti-spamcontrolmechanism.
•Informationaboutinltrationcanbeconguredtobewrittenintoane-mailheader,footerand
subject.
Toruneciently,ESETMailSecurityrequiresjust16MBofhard-diskspaceand32MBofRAM.
It works smoothly under the 2.2.x, 2.4.x and 2.6.x Linux OS kernel versions and also under 5.x, 6.x
FreeBSD OS kernel versions.
Fromlower-powered,small oceserverstoenterprise-class ISPserverswith thousandsof
users, the system delivers the performance and scalability you expect from a UNIX based solution
and the unequaled security of ESET products.

ESET MAIL SECURITY Specifications

General

Category	Email Security Software
Developer	ESET
Supported Platforms	Windows Server, Linux
Key Features	Anti-Phishing, Anti-Spam
Integration	Microsoft Exchange Server
Management	ESET Remote Administrator
Threat Detection	cloud-based
Reporting	Customizable reports