Great executable thanks for the heads up! -----Original Message----- From: Dylan Bromby [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, September 25, 2001 10:06 AM To: CF-Server Subject: RE: Success with NetShield 4.5 ?
speaking of which, eEye just released a free Nimda scanner if anyone's interested. if you don't know who eEye is and you admin WINNT or WIN2K servers, you should - http://www.eEye.com. -----Original Message----- From: Mark Woods [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, September 25, 2001 4:00 AM To: CF-Server Subject: RE: Success with NetShield 4.5 ? I agree with Justin, running a virus scanning tool (well, especially in real-time mode) is unnecessary and in some cases is of no help. Free tools like URLScan and IISLockdown from MS will protect from known and potential, un-discovered, vulnerabilities and following the security guidelines for your system (i.e. not just IIS) and keeping up to date with security patches will keep your system very secure. Mark At 05:45 PM 9/24/2001, you wrote: >I'm not familiar with the specific product... but wouldn't it be much >better just to keep up to date on patching your server? In the event of a >new work virus definitions wouldn't be out and update for at -least- a few >hours at which point it could very well be too late. In the case of Nimda >the first report I saw of it was on BugTraq at 1pm EST, the virus was >first spotted at 9:08 EST and by 1pm I had already received well over a >thousand hits from infect machines. > >Besides, it only spots known worms and virri anyhow. It won't stop a >random script kiddie from trying a three month old exploit on your machine >and getting through. > >Justin Buist >Trident Technology, Inc. >4700 60th St. SW, Suite 102 >Grand Rapids, MI 49512 >Ph. 616.554.2700 >Fx. 616.554.3331 >Mo. 616.291.2612 > >On Mon, 24 Sep 2001, Dalrymple, B Keith wrote: > > > Better a risk of a little performance loss than complete shutdown form an > > infection! > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > Sent: Monday, September 24, 2001 11:22 AM > > To: CF-Server > > Subject: Success with NetShield 4.5 ? > > > > > > I am considering installing Network Associates' McAfee Netshield 4.5 SP1 on > > several NT4 SP6a IIS 4 servers. I've always been reluctant to install such > > software for fear it would create performance or stability problems. Any > > positive or negative experiences out there? > > > > Thanks > > > > ------------------------------------ > > Martin Herbener > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Get the mailserver that powers this list at http://www.coolfusion.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ To unsubscribe, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with 'unsubscribe' in the body or visit the list page at www.houseoffusion.com
