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The incoming or outgoing queue reaches its low fill level (only sent if the feature

QueueFillLevel is enabled).

An encrypted email has been found (only sent if the configuration option

EncryptedEmailOption is set to

NOTIFY_POSTMASTER.)

9.3 Glossary

Term Meaning

AVE (Anti Virus Engine) AVE refers to the engine the virus scanner uses to scan the emails for

potentially dangerous programs.

cron (daemon) A daemon which starts other programs at a specified time.

Daemon A systems administration process in UNIX that runs in the

background. On average several dozen daemons are executed

on one computer. These processes are normally started and

shut down together with the computer.

Eicar The European Institute for Computer Antivirus Research provides

a test virus for testing anti-virus programs. For further information,

refer to

http://www.eicar.org

IUM Avira Internet Update Manager

Log file Also: Report file. A file with reports generated by the program during

runtime when specific events occur.

Malware An umbrella term for “foreign bodies” of all kinds. These can

be incidents, such as viruses, or other software which the user

considers unwanted (see also “Unwanted programs”).

MIME Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions: Internet extensions,

the purpose of which is to integrate binary files in emails.

MIME supports so-called multipart emails. This enables different

file types in one email, binary attachments and HTML emails.

MTA Mail Transport Agent: a program that sends emails by SMTP.

Examples: Sendmail, Postfix, Exim.

Quarantine directory The directory in which infected files are deposited to prevent user

access (e.g.

rejected).

root A user with unrestricted access rights (e.g. the system administrator

in Windows).

SAVAPI Secure AntiVirus Application Programming Interface

Scan engine The Avira AntiVir MailGate software module which controls the scan

for viruses and unwanted programs.

Script A text file with commands which are executed by UNIX (similar to

a batch file in DOS).

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