Re: [IMail Forum] Norton Antivirus

[Les Bevan]

the latest version of NAVIEG (2.5.1.6) can be set to relay for addresses only and now you can input ranges of ip addresses which makes administration a whole lot easier. I'm not saying it is perfect but i am confident it will now plug my open realy problem and virus scanning requirements until i can get Len's Imgate online to be my gatekeeper. I had to stop the server copy of NAV from scanning the NAVIEG spool queue but other than that it now seens to wrk OK. My only bugbear with symantec was the fact that they did not inform any one that NAVIEG would not be able to stop sircam and when i contacted their support staff they were not very forth coming even though the new program had been written 5 hours before i rang them.   From following the threads on the list it would appear that NAVIEG is not the cheapest solution (Declude seems to be the best bang for bucks) but the NAVIEG does come free as part of the NAV corperate package, so if you are paying to protect your client PC's and servers it may be worth looking at.     ----- Original Message ----- From: Tony Gray To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 31, 2001 6:09 PM Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] Norton Antivirus 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 ----- From: Russ Eisenberg To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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 [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 __________________________________________________   Paul Metzger Computer Geek   "Winning isn't everything, but it sure beats anything that comes in second"           --Paul "Bear" Bryant __________________________________________________