----- Original Message -----
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 -----
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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