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Re: your mail
- From: Mike Porter
- Date: Wed Dec 12 14:20:02 2001
The Postini solution uses trend micro as the scanning engine, they are
just the application service provider model.
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Michael Porter - Administrative Assistant for Technology
Eastern Upper Peninsula Intermediate School District
mporter@eup.k12.mi.us ph 906-632-3373
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On Wed, 12 Dec 2001, Ted Williamson wrote:
> Lyle:
>
> The question of which anti virus software you use will depend on what
> email software you use to a certain degree. For Exchange and Notes, I
> highly recommend Trend Micro's products. They can scan based on the
> virus, certain types of text in the message and it can also run stand
> alone (outside of the email system). We use that combination at
> Microsoft. We get hundreds of messages a day with viruses in them and
> so far, this combination works great. Trend Micro will also
> automatically update the signatures and the text often found in virus
> emails to the server.
>
> The two products - Scan Mail and eManager will handle the virus problems
> and will scan messages for text which are associated with the problem
> messages.
>
> I have used this combination with some small businesses and friends
> businesses I support with small (single server) sites. As we all are
> our friend's and family's unpaid IT departments, I chose this solution
> because it works. =20
>
> This isn't the official Microsoft position, since I am not in
> Microsoft's IT dept (I'm a director in our global consulting group), I
> think Trend Micro has a very good product which integrates well into
> Exchange or Notes.
>
> They also have a version of their product for OpenMail.
>
> Hope this helps.
>
> -Ted
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Majordomo [mailto:netsec-request@merit.edu]=20
> Sent: Wednesday, December 12, 2001 2:17 PM
> To: netsec@merit.edu
> Subject: RE: Scanning for Viruses
>
>
> Lyle,
>
> We are currently using a Sco-Unix box with Pine mail on it. It is old
> and outdated, but we are not happy with the options that Microsoft is
> offering. We have not been able to find antivirus software for our
> particular system. We are however, scanning e-mail at our firewall. It
> will remove the attached files known to contain viruses (problem if it
> is a valid file) and sends a message to the user that an attached file
> was deleted. We are happy so far with the results.
>
> Norma Ruggless
> Network Administrator
> ASAE
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: netsec-request@merit.edu [mailto:netsec-request@merit.edu]On
> Behalf Of Lyle Beck
> Sent: Wednesday, December 12, 2001 12:07 PM
> To: netsec@merit.edu
> Subject: Scanning for Viruses
>
>
> We are considering installing E-Mail anti-virus software on our E-Mail
> server. We would like to know if any one is using anti-virus software
> on your E-Mail servers to scan your users E-Mail for infected messages?
> This particular software would then return the infected email back to
> the sender and to the postmaster, along with notification that the mail
> contained a virus. If you do not have an E-Mail anti-virus on your
> server, what would be the reason?
>
> ------------------------------
> Lyle H. Beck MIS Director
> Phone 517-358-7317
> Alpena Community College
> 666 Johnson st.
> Alpena MI 49707
> http://www.alpenacc.org
>
>
> ---
> Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free.
> Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com).
> Version: 6.0.306 / Virus Database: 166 - Release Date: 12/4/2001
>
>
>
>
>
>
> _____________________________________________________________________
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>
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