Using McAfee with Mailsweeper for SMTP

 

 

 

You can use any number of virus scanners with MAILSweeper for SMTP.  As with any product some work better than others and each might need to be installed a different way.  If you are trying to implement McAfee with MAILSweeper for SMTP follow the steps below.  This example is done using McAfee Command Line 4_12 scanner.

 

  1. Install the command line scanner to a directory IN THE ROOT of a drive.  An example of this would be D:\Mcafee.
  2. Depending on which scan.exe your McAfee installs with you will need to check the appropriate Virus Manager scenario.  This one uses scan.exe, which according to the exe.ini located in <drive>:\program files\common files\Content Technologies should use McAfee 4.7 in the virus manager scenario.
  3. Set the scenario to clean, and annotate it if you wish
  4. Set the classifications to cleaned and to either virus in or virus out

 

This should allow you to have success using McAfee virus scan with MAILSweeper for SMTP.

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