>Do the mail server virus protection products scan everything coming in /
>out like the SMTP port ...
yeah, mostly they work like a mail relay hub.
receive/scan/can/forward. Can be on one machine with Imail or on its own
machine.
>What is everyone using to do this?
My informal monitoring gives slight edge to MicroTrend.
>My NA virus software sends me an email saying the KAK worm was found in a
>message in Imail/spool ... lotta good that does, as the message is gone and
>also downloaded by a user before I get a chance to find out who it is so I
>can warn them.
Scanning of outgoing is of course being a model netizen, but it may be a
little trickier to set up (Imail has to send all mail thru gateway, that
being the av machine)and the dedicated av scan machine would be reommended,
because bi-directional scanning plus delivering mail directly to remote
destinations will get heavy in a hurry.
Len
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