Creating the protection scope of IM Anti-Virus

The protection scope refers to the objects that the component scans when enabled. The protection scopes of different components have different properties. The type of scanned IM client messages, incoming or outgoing, is a property of the IM Anti-Virus protection scope. By default, IM Anti-Virus scans both incoming and outgoing messages. You may disable scanning of outgoing traffic.

To create the protection scope:

1. Open the application settings window.
2. In the left part of the window, in the Anti-Virus protection section, select the IM Anti-Virus subsection.

   In the right part of the window, the settings of the IM Anti-Virus component are displayed.

3. In the Protection scope section, do one of the following:
   • If you want IM Anti-Virus to scan all incoming and outgoing messages of IM clients, select the Incoming and outgoing messages option.
   • If you want IM Anti-Virus to scan only incoming messages of IM clients, select the Incoming messages only option.
4. To save changes, click the Save button.