How to Use VirusBuster for Mail Servers

By eHow Computers Editor

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When you're using an in-house server for the email needs of your company, you need to have some kind of protection running on it to keep the malicious bots and viruses out. They wreak havoc on your network and your incoming and outgoing email without a product like VirusBusters for Mail Servers keeping the bots and viruses in check.

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Instructions

Difficulty: Easy

Step1

Install VirusBuster for Mail Servers by running and executing the command "vbmsrv-install.pl" on your email server. Specify which type of server you want to protect. Set the run-as-group and the run-as-user option values and tell it the locations of specific files when it asks. Follow the exact instructions included with your VirusBuster package for the kind of email server that you use.

Step2

Make the settings for VirusBuster on your email server as convenient for you as possible to keep the spam and malicious bots out and let the actual mail through that you need to run your business. There are instructions for your settings included with your package depending on which kind of mail server you use.

Step3

Update your virus database as often as possible. VirusBuster allows you to automate this process so you don't have to go in and do it manually every time. But it's easiest and most beneficial to the safety of your email and server to run your update manager at least once per day. The scripts to do this are included with the package, and you put them into the "/user/sbin" directory. Otherwise, download the updates from the manual updates address.

Step4

Use your email clients from the individual desktops just as you normally would.