Options: warnings (Internet - Advanced)

Note: certain options are only available depending on the product purchased and the operating system configuration. For more information, see Differences between versions

Warnings are notifications the antivirus generates to indicate that it has detected a virus. Because of the importance of this type of notification, its configuration is flexible and powerful to ensure that the virus notification reaches the right person. The configuration options are as follows:

In the network

This option instructs the antivirus to communicate the detection of a virus in one computer to other computers connected in a network with the first one

Send message to workstation: you can choose to send the virus detection message to a specific workstation in the network.

Workstation: enables you to indicate the workstation to which you wish to send the virus detection message.

Message: the message which will be displayed each time a virus is detected.

Send message to domain: you can choose to send the virus detection message to all the workstations belonging to the same domain.

Domain: allows you to indicate the domain to which you wish to send the virus detection message.

Message: the message that will be displayed each time a virus is detected.

Server: here is where you can enter the name of the server through which warning messages will be sent.

Via e-mail

This option instructs the antivirus to use electronic mail to notify of the detection of a virus in a computer.

Send message to address: serves to indicate that you want an e-mail message to be sent each time a virus is detected.

Address: the e-mail address to which the virus detection messages will be sent.

Message: the message which will be shown each time a virus is detected.

In messages containing viruses

This option makes it possible to notify the detection of a virus in an e-mail message. The notification can be addressed to the sender or to the rest of the recipients, or the warning message can be directly inserted into the infected message.

Insert warning in the message: inserts a virus warning message into the same e-mail message that contains the infected file.

Warning in the infected message: this is the text of the notification which will be inserted into the message.

Send warning to sender: sends an e-mail message to the sender advising them of the detection of the virus in the message they have sent.

Warning for the sender: the text of the notification which will be transmitted to the sender.

Send warning to other recipients: sends an e-mail message to each of the remaining recipients of the infected message, if there are additional recipients.

Warning for other recipients: the text of the warning message which will be sent to the other recipients of an infected e-mail message.