CIFS virus protection is a Data ONTAP feature that allows a virus-scanning PC client running Network Appliance-compliant antivirus applications to provide on-access virus scanning of files on a filer. On-access virus scanning means that a file is scanned before a CIFS client is allowed to open it.
CIFS virus scanning is carried out on dedicated PC clients running the Network Appliance-compliant antivirus application of your choice. When you enable the virus-scanning process through Data ONTAP on the filer, the virus-scanning application tells the filer to send file scanning requests.
The virus-scanning application watches for requests from the filer. Whenever the types of files you specify are opened or changed on the filer, Data ONTAP sends the PC client a request to scan the file.
The Data ONTAP virus-scanning process can scan multiple filers from a single PC client if your virus-scanning application performs this function. For more information about whether a specific virus-scanning application can accommodate scanning multiple filers, contact the manufacturer of your virus-scanning application.
In order to successfully scan for viruses on the filer, the anti-virus application installed on your PC client must be a version customized for Network Appliance filers and supplied by one of Network Appliance's anti-virus software partners.
For a listing of the major software vendors who supply anti-virus software compliant with Network Appliance, see the Partner Solutions Catalog, Data Protection at the Network Appliance web site, http://www.netapp.com.
You can also see the Antivirus Scanning Best Practices Guide in the Windows section of the Network Appliance Technical Library at http://www.netapp.com.
By default, files with the extensions shown in the following table are scanned when CIFS virus scanning is enabled.
Note
In this table, the "?" character is a wildcard that matches any character or no character. For example,"C??" matches "C", "CL", "CPP", "C++", and so on.
Caution
Using "???" will cause all files to be scanned. This may severely degrade performance and is not recommended.
You can also configure Data ONTAP so that file extensions not in the default list are scanned, or only a subset of the default file extensions is scanned. For more information, see Specifying file types to be scanned.
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