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Archive Handling

The Archive Handling section looks like this:

Using this section, you can configure blocking and other actions for encrypted, corrupted, multi-part archives, archives containing mail bombs (an archive is a mail bomb if its content size exceeds the limit set by the user), and archives exceeding the maximum recursion level, i. e. how deep archives are nested within each other.

The size and recursion level limits are configured in the Archive Handling Options section, which is also provided on this tab.

If a virus is contained within an archive that is compressed, the virus cannot be detected and prevented from downloading.

The Archive Handler decompresses the members of an archive one-by-one, and passes them on to the virus scanner. When the archive member containing the virus is decompressed, virus scanner detects the virus, so the archive can be blocked.

You can configure different actions for archives in Web and e-mail traffic.

After selecting these actions from the drop-down lists provided here, click on Apply Changes to make your settings effective.

Archive Handling Options

The Archive Handling Options section looks like this:

Using this section, you can configure limits for archive sizes and recursion levels.

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