Chapter 38 Anti-Virus
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38.2.1 General Anti-Virus Commands
The following table describes general anti-virus commands. You must use the configure terminal
command to enter the configuration mode before you can use these commands.
Note: You must register for the anti-virus service in order to use it (see Chapter 5 on page 53).
Table 167 General Anti-Virus Commands
COMMAND DESCRIPTION
[no] anti-virus activate
Enables the anti-virus service. The Anti-Virus service depends on anti-virus service
registration.
show anti-virus eicar
activation
Displays anti-virus eicar status.
[no] anti-virus cloud-query
activate
Enables the cloud-query service.
The no command disables the cloud-query service.
show anti-virus cloud-query
status
Displays the status of anti-virus cloud-query.
Note: This command was removed in firmware version 4.5.0
[no] anti-virus eicar
activate
Turns detection of the EICAR test file on or off.
anti-virus scan mode
{express | hybrid | stream}
Sets the anti-virus scan mode.
• Express: The Zyxel Device scans files that match the list of user-defined file types
using cloud query. This is the fastest scan mode.
• Hybrid: The Zyxel Device scans files that match the list of user-defined file types using
cloud query, anti-malware signatures, and Threat Intelligence Machine Learning (if
supported). This mode offers a balance of speed and security.
• Stream: The Zyxel Device scans all files using anti-malware signatures and Threat
Intelligence Machine Learning (if supported). This is the deepest scan mode.
Note: Some device models do not support hybrid mode.
show anti-virus scan mode
status
Displays the current anti-virus scan mode.
[no] anti-virus cloud-query
ftype-identify file_type
Adds or removes a file type from the list of user-defined file types that cloud query will
scan.
Allowed values: 7z, AVI, BMP, BZ2, EXE, Flash, GIF, Gz, JPG, MOV, MP3, MPG, “MS
Office”, PNG, RAR, RM, TIFF, WAV, ZIP.
show anti-virus cloud-query
ftype-identify status
Displays the list of user-defined file types that cloud query will scan.
anti-virus reload signatures
Recovers anti-virus signatures. You only need to do this if instructed by a support
technician.
[no] anti-virus skip-
unknown-file-type activate
Sets whether or not anti-virus checks unknown file types.
show anti-virus skip-
unknown-file-type activation
Displays whether or not anti-virus checks unknown file types.
anti-virus mail-infect-ext
activate
Has the Zyxel Device add a notification text file to an e-mail after modifying a virus-
infected e-mail attachment.
no anti-virus mail-infect-
ext activate
Has the Zyxel Device not add a notification text file to an e-mail after identifying an
infected file.
[no] security-service anti-
virus activate
Turns on anti-virus on the Zyxel Device.
The no command disables anti-virus.