Yes and let me add my little experience with
Norton and Imail:
- the norton rtvscan.exe client will occasionally
catch stuff in the spool directory, depending on which virus it is it can
either clean or quarantine it.
- running an administrator scan nightly will
catch anything that is in the spool directory, and in users
mailboxes.
All of this is great, BUT:
- it only catches a fraction of what goes thru
the server.
- when it catches viruses, it can lock up Imail's
queue (and messages build to the point that the entire server stops
responding), or it will lock up user's files, to the point that they get pop
lock errors when trying to download messages (stopping and restarting POP3
seems to cure this)
Don't even bother with NAV for mail gateways - it
will catch incoming viruses to your SMTP server, but it will also leave you as
an open relay (I was never able to pass the RSS testing without configuring it
to a point that it would refuse ALL mail in or out)
I love Norton, but I have come to the
conclusion that Norton and an Email server just aren't meant to
be... I am going to implement Declude and probably F-Prot, if I can
get F-Prot to answer some technical questions I have for them...
- Tony Gray
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Tuesday, July 31, 2001 10:55
AM
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 -----
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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