Reply to: Randy Leiker
Re: [IMail Forum] Problem reagrding the virus Detection and Outgoing messages.
on Monday 11:23:02 PM
From: Roger Heath [EMAIL PROTECTED]
R> Sree,
R> I don't know how to help you out with the filters as I haven't had much of a
R> chance to work with them, however I can help you out on the anti-virus
R> issue. What I've done to address the email virus risk is to install Norton
R> Antivirus 5.0 on each mail server (not necessarily on the gateway machine).
R> I then instructed Antivirus to scan all of the files in the Imail queue
R> whenever they are created/accessed, etc. To avoid some further overhead
R> administration, I setup Norton's scheduler to automatically grab virus
R> defintion update files on a nightly basis and to do scans of the entire
R> server a couple of times each week. Using this method, I've been able to
R> stop amazing amounts of email viruses that have come through the email
R> servers I administrate.
I have Norton 5.0 setup on auto-protect and it does work to scan spool
files automatically. I set this to clean and it cleans the file most
of the time before it it sent, or so it appears. This is what it's log
says anyway. Auto-protect also scans any new files on the whole
machine as well protecting the server.
I would also recommend Black Ice to any one here as mentioned here
earlier by some one else. http://www.networkice.com We had no idea that
so many were attempting to hack our servers in so many different ways
and this blocks much of this as well as tracks down the offender. It
even protected one of our IIS server early this morning against someone
trying to overload it.
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bcnu
www.rleeheath.com
Roger Heath [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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