As I said, there is scanning of email at the main servers. And that was a huge controversy a couple years back, so what they do is strip any attachments and pass the email with an added message that it's been scanned and a virus removed.
But that's on the main email servers. As far as faculty computers, I guess it's harder to police than you'd think. Apparently there's some policy or something in place that says that IT can't interfere with any academic endeavor. So if a professor feels the need to run a web or email server on their system, I guess they can. Fortunately, most of our faculty know that running a server and putting up a good site is work and they'll go to the professionals. The students on the other hand aren't likely to pay someone to build and host their personal site. They're also allowed to run servers provided they don't interfere with other people's network usage. And they can be disconnected without notice. Who knows, maybe some new policies will come out of this mess. -Kevin (Posting through the web interface because email doesn't seem to be getting through.) >I would think that client virus protection & patching would be almost >impossible to require with something like that, but if it were on every mail >server, nothing would have ever gotten in, correct? I know that ISP's, >etc., don't run antivirus at the gateway in most cases, since I believe it's >a liability issue, but I would think that a university would be a different >question. But as far as I know, the schools I went to (MSU, Siena Heights) >don't have mailserver virus filtering. Bizarre. > >I suppose to a point Universities are a different breed, but only due to the >student's computers. There of course shouldn't be a single faculty or >facilities computer infected. You can mandate their security/antivirus >settings. > >On another note, I was browsing my mail logs this morning & saw that a local >bank I communicate with regularly wasn't getting their email from our >machines. Why? They had taken their mail server(s) down yesterday as a >pre-emptive move. If you're protected, I don't know how you can just shut >down a business communications mechanism. I just don't get it. > >I wish you guys all the luck in the world cleaning that stuff up. > >Josh ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm?link=t:5 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm?link=s:5 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5 Get the mailserver that powers this list at http://www.coolfusion.com
