I agree with you....but unforunatly my customers are all contained within
the Diamond District in NYC......they think that if I can see a virus...I
can see their mail.....So....therefore I just let it go......It's all
perceived privacy.......
Russ Eisenberg, CCNA, CNA, N+
Director of IT Services
Worldwide Security Network
718.380.0209
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Guy Isabel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, July 31, 2001 1:04 PM
Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] Norton Antivirus
> 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
> --
> Guy Isabel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
>
> ----- 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
>
> -----Original Message-----
> 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
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> ----- 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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>
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