This may be naive but I readily don't see what would be unethical about
having an AV program scanning the spool directory. It's an automated
process. If no one is actually reading what's in the directory, other
perhaps than looking at files flagged as virus-laden and doing so to protect
users, not spy on them, can it still be construed as infringing on privacy?
But I may be missing something such as how does one prove that one is
looking *only* at infected files. Was this your point? I'm concerned about
user-privacy issues and would appreciate any clarification about what are
the "perils" of looking at flagged or quarantined files to determine whether
they are not false positives.
Thanks in advance,
Guy
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----- Original Message -----
From: Paul Metzger
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, July 31, 2001 12:40 PM
Subject: RE: [IMail Forum] Norton Antivirus
Hum....... I think I may just adopt your privacy policy and just tell it to
stop scanning the spool dir. We just need to puch the E-Mail filtering
service harder, then I won't have to worry about it:)
Thanks
Paul
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Russ Eisenberg
Sent: Tuesday, July 31, 2001 9:55 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] Norton Antivirus
As far as I have found.....you can't clean those files with Norton. You can
kill the files entirely after detection...but that is not a good solution.
The least expensive solution that I have found (I don't currently scan my
spools due to privacy issues with my clients) is Declude....according to
them you can use their antivirus software which works in conjunction with a
standard antivirus scanner, but requires a command line scanning util.
Norton doesn't have a command line scanner...so you would need to use a
different one, like Mcaffee or F-Prot.
Russ Eisenberg, CCNA, CNA, N+
Director of IT Services
Worldwide Security Network
718.380.0209
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----- Original Message -----
From: Paul Metzger
To: iMail Forum
Sent: Tuesday, July 31, 2001 10:33 AM
Subject: [IMail Forum] Norton Antivirus
Hi, I have a question and want to see if anyone has a solution for this. We
are running iMail 6.x and Norton Antivirus Corporate 7.5. Here is the
question. NAV will come up and tell me if there is a virus in the
\imail\spool directory, but is never able to clean it. Is there anyway to
tell iMail to allow NAV to have access to the file to clean it, or is there
something I can tell NAV to do to gain access to the file to clean. I have
read where with NAV 2001 you have to change the port on iMail so NAV can
scan SMTP on port 25, but the problem doesn't seem to be scanning, it seems
to be it just can't clean the files. Any help/advise will be greatly
appreciated.
Thanks in Advance
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Paul Metzger
Computer Geek
"Winning isn't everything, but it sure beats anything that comes in second"
--Paul "Bear" Bryant
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