It's not necessarily about saving money though right? Scanning at the gateway (in-house or outsourced) can be a valid additional level of protection. A significant number of our customers use some form of gateway scanner[1] in addition to their server and desktop based AV solutions.
[1] MessageLabs, MailSweeper, Trend's Instercan, et al. > From: Roger Seielstad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Reply-To: "Exchange Discussions" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Tue, 5 Aug 2003 07:10:22 -0400 > To: "Exchange Discussions" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: RE: AV/Spam scanning services > > There are some discussions of a few of them in the archives. > > Personally, I'm not a fan of outsourced anti-spam, but that's in part > because we're a heavily email dependent company and so we can justify the > expense of in house measures to combat those issues. > > As a side note - outsourced antivirus doesn't save money - you still need to > have an inhouse AV product for email, because scanning at the gateway isn't > enough. > _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Web Interface: http://intm-dl.sparklist.com/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=exchange&text_mode=&lang=english To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
