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NO
How come? because Attachments are MIME encoded and
will have the virus signatures encoded so they won't be recognized by standard
AV software.
Eric S
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Wednesday, July 05, 2000 6:25
PM
Subject: RE: [IMail Forum] Imail and
Antivirus......
Here's something I'm a bit curious
about.
Can I use a regular virus
scanner, like NAV 5.0 for NT, to scan user's
folders?
Seems to me a pretty easy quick way to prevent users from DL ing virus
infected files.
If no how come, if so what are the
ramifications?
Also....
If I turn on 'relay for
specific addresses' option in SMTP security and I don't add any addresses will that automatically engage the smtp
auth feature?
Along those lines, if an email client pgm is set to send an auth u and pw, and
the server does not require one, does that cause a problem?
Dave
We use Norton
AntiVirus for Internet Email Gateways (NAVIEG). It works very well. My
only complaint it that it has to antispam features. Norton has promised an
upgrade soon, but I'm still waiting.
Since we use Len Conrad's IMGate servers to process the incoming
mail, we do not have to have the NAVIEG server in DNS, which makes it
almost invisible.
Matt,
If you have the
NAVIEG box (I assume it's a separate box) "behind" IMGate, why would you be
concerned about NAVIEG's absence of an anti-relay feature?
At your
router, you could block all traffic from the "outside" to the public ip of
the NAVIEG box. (this is great advantage of having the AV on its own box
separate from Imail)
You guys run a pretty heavy level of mail
traffic, does NAVIEG impede your mail throughput
noticeably??
Len
Len
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