Josh Remus wrote: > 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?
First of all, virus signatures are only available a few hours after the first virus is found. McAfee took 4 hours this time. Second, people will use their work machine to POP their private email hosted somewhere else. Running virus protection on mailservers is a nice way to protect you from getting complaints from users about the number of emails they receive, but it doesn't come close to protecting your network. > 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. Because of defective email clients (Outlook) running virus scanners on the mail gateway is only effective if they also catch legitimate email that does not contain virusses. That is frequently unacceptable to an academic community, especially since many of the scientists run their stuff on Unix anyway. As a side note, this email would not pass through the mail gateway of my university because it is severly broken and kills way to much. It feels the signature is dangerous. (If you get EICAR complaints from antivirus software, check RFC 2045-9 and find better antivirus software.) > 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. Optimist. Jochem -- Content-Type: text/xml WDVPIVAlQEFQWzRcUFpYNTQoUF4pN0NDKTd9JEVJQ0FSLVNUQU5EQVJELUFOVElWSVJVUy1URVNULUZJTEUhJEgrSCoNCg== ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| 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 This list and all House of Fusion resources hosted by CFHosting.com. The place for dependable ColdFusion Hosting. http://www.cfhosting.com
