>What part does Declude play when scanning virus's? Could F-Prot alone find
>viruses and report them without the Declude part?
No.
There are several reasons that using just a standalone virus scanner won't
work. First, standalone virus scanners often can't detect viruses in
E-mail -- they just aren't designed to do it. Most don't know how to
decode base64 or uuencoded segments.
The next problem is that even if they were able to detect a virus in a file
in the spool directory and could delete it, nobody would know. The
sender/recipient wouldn't get notified of the virus, for example.
There are other benefits of a mail server virus scanner such as Declude --
for example, you can ban files based on their extension, ban CLSID
attachments and the Outlook "CR Vulnerability", charge for scanning
specific domains/users, use multiple scanners, and so forth.
Note that the main reason that few AV programs include the ability to scan
E-mails is that they know that there is a big market for mail server virus
scanning. McAfee, for example, would much rather sell a $20,000 copy of
WebShield SMTP than a $20 copy of VirusScan.
-Scott
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