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Re: Scanning for Viruses
- From: Joet Reoma
- Date: Thu Dec 13 09:56:12 2001
Lyle and others:
We use Norton AV Corporate Edition residing on a master server (NT 4)
that pushes updates to Windows clients and to two Netware 3.12 servers.
Interestingly, virus defs are not pushed automatically until we tap the
the master server on the head or when clients complain of the delay.
But we are moving towards more pre-emptive methods through our Linux
firewall.
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Joet Reoma, Dir IT Services, Concordia U., Ann Arbor, MI.
Email:reomaj@cuaa.edu T:734-995-7598 F:-7405.
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On Wed, 12 Dec 2001, Bill Fryberger wrote:
> Lyle,
>
> We are currently using Groupwise 5.5 EP which doesn't leave a whole lot
> of = virus scanning options. What we decided to do was an antivirus for =
> gateways (Norton) which basically is a standalone 2000 or Solaris system =
> that scans all incoming mail for virii, repairs or deletes and then sends
> = it on to our groupwise system. It worked so well we now have another
> for = our NIMS system.
>
> The design is very failover friendly in that it's all done with MX =
> records, thus if the virus scan box goes offline for any reason its
> really = not that big of a deal (other than mail would not be scanned)
>
> I have the systems set to live update every day which is a wonderful =
> feature. Other products I tested were MIMEsweeper which is also very
> nice = but not even close when the price tag came down.
>
> Hope this helps.
>
> Bill Fryberger
> Network Administrator
> Grand Valley State University
>
> >>> beckl@alpena.cc.mi.us 12/12/01 01:06PM >>>
> 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=20
>
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> 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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