Jason, E-mail ports have to be open on the firewall to allow e-mail. Closing them rather defeats the purpose. Network shares do not go through firewalls in most cases.
Thus if have a machine that becomes infected via e-mail with a virus, that virus can infiltrate through network shares to other machines, even to machines that are not on the internet at all. --Jonathan Moore --- Jason Newland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Jonathan Moore" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Thursday, September 26, 2002 12:56 PM > Subject: RE: [IMail Forum] Firewalls and email > servers > > > > John, > > > > I have to wonder exactly how you construed my > noting a > > quick answer to be the equivalent of a > reccomendation. > > Perhaps you would care to explain. > > > > As for how Nimda spread, my understanding was > through > > e-mail and network shares, something unrelated to > an > > Internet firewall. Perhaps you might elaborate on > > your point. Please review Symantec's link below > for > > further information concerning Nimda. > > > > How are e-mail and network shares unrelated to an > internet firewall? > > > > Jason > > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: > http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html > List Archive: > http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ > Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/ __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? New DSL Internet Access from SBC & Yahoo! http://sbc.yahoo.com To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/
