You are going to find out real fast that while the AV portion will work quite well, the content filtering isn't worth the CD that it was produced on. Sure, there are lots of options. Sure, you can quarantine stuff. What happens if it quarantines a false-positive? Oh, sorry. It completely mangles it so you can't get it back into the original format. Sure, the content dictionary works, but the fact is that quarantining potential spam completely breaks the message, whether it is spam or not, irritates the heck out of me. We had to completely turn off the content filtering portion and set up a separate server as a gateway to do spam scanning. Now, luckily when you buy the Enterprise edition, it includes both Corp. edition and the Mail/Gateway scanning pieces, but you get the picture. I'm not too happy with Symantec right now.
Ben Winzenz Network Engineer Gardner & White (317) 581-1580 ext 418 -----Original Message----- From: Neil Doody [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Posted At: Thursday, October 02, 2003 4:24 AM Posted To: Exchange (Swynk) Conversation: New AV Gateway Recommendations Subject: RE: New AV Gateway Recommendations Okay, the word "agent" was probably unjust as its not called that. We brought corporate edition Norton and in the pack we got a CD called "Virus Protection for Mail Servers" it included :- Symantec AntiVirus/Filtering for Microsoft(r) Exchange 2000 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ---- Version: 3.05.10.105 Copyright (c) 2001 Symantec Corporation. All rights reserved. We think the software is great, there are loads of options, a content dictionary search, loads of spam options. Weve not really taken advantage of them, just the Virus scanning. But sorry yeah, its not called an agent, it's the antivirus/filtering for exchange 2000. -----Original Message----- From: Ben Winzenz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 01 October 2003 18:57 To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: New AV Gateway Recommendations There is no additional "agent" for Exchange. If you buy Corp. Ed., it does not include the AV/Filtering for Exchange. And, IMHO, it sucks rocks. I like Corp. ed., but the Exchange server piece bites, and I have told them that plenty of times. The A/V scanning is fine, but the content filtering leaves a LOT to be desired. It is also not a gateway piece (though they have one available which was mentioned earlier). Ben Winzenz Network Engineer Gardner & White (317) 581-1580 ext 418 -----Original Message----- From: DL.Exchange [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Posted At: Wednesday, October 01, 2003 12:30 PM Posted To: Exchange (Swynk) Conversation: New AV Gateway Recommendations Subject: RE: New AV Gateway Recommendations Are you referring to an additional agent for Norton (Symantec) corporate antivirus, or the Norton (Symantec) antivirus filter? The avf we have is only able to filter by sender/subject line or set 'content types', in other words, quite limited... If you are talking about an additional agent, do you happen to have a link lying around for product information? TIA Thank you, Mitchell D. Lawrence **<Good|Cheap|Fast> (Pick Two)** -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Neil Doody Posted At: Wednesday, October 01, 2003 12:22 PM Posted To: ~Exchange Discussion~ Conversation: New AV Gateway Recommendations Subject: RE: New AV Gateway Recommendations I must recommend the Exchange agent by Symantec, you buy Norton Corporate and get the Exchange agent separate, install this, you get a nice web GUI, and viruses should never land in your users mailboxes ever again. Very customizable, you can have it mail all people involved, it can set size limits, it can be told not to allow unscanable (encrypted) items, but that is a pain in the arse if its genuine! Its good. -----Original Message----- From: Candee Vaglica [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 01 October 2003 17:34 To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: New AV Gateway Recommendations Symantec's gateway will do *most* of that. -----Original Message----- From: Martin Blackstone [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, October 01, 2003 11:29 AM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: New AV Gateway Recommendations I'm looking for a new AV gateway product. I'm looking for something that has the following features. Right now we use NAI Websheild SMTP gateway which does a pretty good job but is getting rather dated and it does not appear that this program will updated past its 4.5 version. The program has some nice features, but anything NAI blows, the support gets worse by the day, so I want to move on. The current setup I have is a single server that receives to WebSheild for AV scanning and keyword content filtering. Then it passes it on via port 26 to my MailFrontier for antispam scanning (both run on the same box) which then finally passes it on to the Exchange server boxen on port 25 just like usual. Here are the features I am looking for * Keyword Blocking * The ability to turn anti spam off and just use keyword blocking. * AV scanner * Ability to pass the mail on another port (such as when an AV gateway and an Antispam gateway are on the same box) * Recipient Exclusion * Sender exclusion (allow mail to pass directly from specified email addresses without scanning for content or virus's) * Originator Blocking (just dump any email that comes from specified persons) * A bonus would be that if it could do a lookup against my GAL and just dump any email for an address that does not exist * Must run on Wintel platform * Customizeable NDR's for content filtering, etc Martin Blackstone Director, Information Technologies Microsoft Exchange MVP Superior Access Insurance Services 949.470.2111 x279 _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Web Interface: http://intm-dl.sparklist.com/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=exchange&text_mode=&; lang =english To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Web Interface: http://intm-dl.sparklist.com/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=exchange&text_mode=&; lang=english To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Web Interface: http://intm-dl.sparklist.com/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=exchange&text_mode=&; lang=english To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Web Interface: http://intm-dl.sparklist.com/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=exchange&text_mode=&; lang=english To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Web Interface: http://intm-dl.sparklist.com/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=exchange&text_mode=&; lang=english To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Web Interface: http://intm-dl.sparklist.com/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=exchange&text_mode=&; lang=english To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Web Interface: http://intm-dl.sparklist.com/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=exchange&text_mode=&lang=english To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
