>Does anyone know what Declude/McAfee or Declude/F-Prot will do to the
>server processor? I have a PII - 400 with 384MB. Right now it is
>consistently at 30% utilization. How much worse will it get if 10,000
>emails are sent a day mostly spread out over a 10 hour period?
>About the time Nimda hit, we put Mcafee VirusScan 4.? on our Imail Win2k
>server and performance slowed to a pitiful level of performance. I do not
>have any numbers or stats, but as soon as we removed Mcafee, performance
>returned to normal. We also tried NAV with the same results. I think
>it's because these products are checking huge .MBX files every time they
>are accessed.
We just were contacted by someone else who tried using a standard AV
program to scan the .mbx files. As you mention, that uses up huge amounts
of CPU time (you often end up re-scanning E-mails dozens/hundreds of
times), and often just won't work (most AV products are designed not to
scan MIME segments).
-Scott
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