Antivirus protection

Antivirus scanning

Virus scanning intercepts most files (including files compressed with up to 12 layers of compression using zip, rar, gzip, tar, upx, and OLE) in the content streams for which antivirus protection as been enabled. Each file is tested to determine the file type and to determine the most effective method of scanning the file for viruses. For example, binary files are scanned using binary virus scanning and Microsoft Office files containing macros are scanned for macro viruses.

FortiGate virus scanning does not scan the following file types:

cdimage

floppy image

.ace

.bzip2

.Tar+Gzip+Bzip2

If a file is found to contain a virus it is removed from the content stream and replaced with a replacement message.

To scan FortiGate firewall traffic for viruses

1Select antivirus scanning in a content profile. See “Adding a content profile” on page 170.

2Add this content profile to firewall policies to apply virus scanning to the traffic controlled by the firewall policy.

See “Adding a content profile to a policy” on page 171.

Figure 37: Example content profile for virus scanning

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