Hi Scott. Thanks for the quick and detailed answer.
I will presenting this solution to our Board for approval. I am getting a presentation together and am trying to make sure I have an answer for any questions they may ask before giving approval to purchase. Would you happen to have a PowerPoint presentation or manuals that show the virus scanning process? Just wondering. Thanks again and I will be writing in with more questions. Have a great day. Samantha -----Original Message----- From: R. Scott Perry [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, April 15, 2002 1:18 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] Declude >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 --- Declude: Anti-virus, Anti-spam and Anti-hijacking solutions for IMail. http://www.declude.com --- [This E-mail was scanned for viruses by Declude Virus (http://www.declude.com)] Please visit http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html to be removed from this list. An Archive of this list is available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Please visit the Knowledge Base for answers to frequently asked questions: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/ Please visit http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html to be removed from this list. An Archive of this list is available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Please visit the Knowledge Base for answers to frequently asked questions: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/
