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Oracle® ZFS Storage Appliance Administration Guide, Release 2013.1.4.0

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Updated: April 2015
 
 

Virus Scan File Extensions

This section describes how to control which files are scanned. The default value, " * ", causes all files to be scanned. Scanning all files may impact performance so you can designate a subset of files to scan.

For example, to scan only high-risk files, including zip files, but not files with names that match the pattern "data-archive*.zip", you could configure the following settings:

Table 76  Virus Scan File Extensions
Action
Pattern
Scan
exe
Scan
com
Scan
bat
Scan
doc
Scan
zip
Don't Scan
data-archive*.zip
Don't Scan
*

Note -  You must use "Don't Scan *" to exclude all other file types not explicitly included in the scan list. A file named "file.name.exe.bat.jpg123" would NOT be scanned, as only the "jpg123" portion of the name, the extension, would be compared against the rules.

Do NOT use exclude settings before include settings. For example, do not use a "Don't Scan *" setting before include settings since that would exclude all file types that come after it. The following example would not scan any files:


Table 77  Virus Scan Actions
Action
Pattern
Don't Scan
*
Scan
exe
Scan
com
Scan
bat
Scan
doc
Scan
zip
Don't Scan
data-archive*.zip