Virus Filtering Page

The Virus Filtering report page provides an overview of the viruses that are sent to and from your network. The Virus Types page displays the viruses that have been detected by the virus scanning engines running on the Email Security appliances and are displayed on the Security Management appliance. Use this report to take action against a particular virus. For example, if you see that you are receiving a high volume of viruses known to be embedded in PDF files, you can create a filter action to quarantine messages with PDF attachments.

To view the Virus Filtering report page on the Security Management appliance, select Email from the Product drop-down and choose Monitoring > Virus Filtering from the Reports drop-down. For more information, see Using the Interactive Report Pages.

If you run multiple virus scanning engines, the Virus Filtering report page includes results from all enabled virus scanning engines. The name of the virus that appears on the page is determined by the virus scanning engines. If more than one scanning engine detects a virus, it is possible to have more than one entry for the same virus.

The following list explains the various sections on the Virus Filtering report page:

Details on the Virus Filtering Page
Section	Description
Time Range (drop-down list)	A drop-down list with options for choosing a time range to view. For more information, see Choosing a Time Range for Reports.
View Data For (drop-down list)	Choose an Email Security appliance for which you want to view the data, or choose All Email Appliances. See also Viewing Reporting Data for an Appliance or Reporting Group.
Top Incoming Virus Types Detected	This section displays a chart view of the detected viruses in messages sent to your network.
Top Outgoing Virus Types Detected	This section displays a chart view of the detected viruses in messages sent from your network.
Virus Types Detail	An interactive table that shows the details of each virus type. For more information, see Virus Types Detail Table

Note

To see which hosts sent virus-infected messages to your network, go to the Incoming Mail page, specify the same reporting period, and sort by virus positive messages. Similarly, to see which IP addresses have sent virus positive emails within your network, go to the Outgoing Senders page and sort by virus positive messages.

From the Virus Filtering report page, you can export raw data to a CSV file. For information on printing or exporting a file, see the Exporting Reporting and Tracking Data.

You can generate a scheduled report for the Virus Filtering report page. See the Scheduling Email Reports.