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You can optimize the performance of Web Reputation scanning by configuring your settings accordingly. Consider implementing the following to optimize your version of Web Reputation:
  • Add your company's internal URL to the Approved URL List. This allows ScanMail to bypass messages containing internal URLs, which will reduce network bandwidth usage and improve performance.
  • Use a Smart Protection Server to reduce network bandwidth usage. Web reputation services sends URL queries to the external Smart Protection Network or to the local Smart Protection Server. Networks can suffer a performance impact with a slow Internet connection when querying the Smart Protection Network. Configure a Smart Protection Server using the management console and change the Web Reputation source by clicking Server Settings → Local Smart Scan Source.
  • To optimize Smart Protection Server performance, consider a dedicated Smart Protection Server for ScanMail. If your Smart Protection Server is providing services to both ScanMail and OfficeScan, for example, server performance could suffer.