Innocuwhat?

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Don Ely
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-----Original Message-----
From: Carl Houseman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] 
Sent: Wednesday, April 10, 2002 2:30 PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Is virus protection on the Exchange server necessary?


Not only would I put some kind of AV on every possible platform, I would
consider using different brands of AV on each type of platform (e.g. NAV on
the desktops, Inoculate-It on the file servers, and Trend on Exchange).
This can improve protection when a new threat is going around, since any
given vendor may be faster than another at issuing updated signatures.

-----Original Message-----
From: Lathrum Matt-P55173 [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, April 10, 2002 1:10 PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: Is virus protection on the Exchange server necessary?


Our environment has Trend running on the firewall for anti-virus and content
filtering.  We have NAV running on the desktops.  We are currently
evaluating Antigen and SAVF (Symantec) to put on our E2K Exchange servers
(including an E2K cluster on a Compaq SAN).  However, our Microsoft resident
is suggesting to us that AV on the servers themselves is not necessary and
will only introduce problems and instability (particularly Symantec's
product).  He said that when a virus outbreak occurs that actually gets
inside, a quick ExMerge on the server is just as effective as pushing out
virus defs using the AV product.

With AV software on the firewall and on the desktops, what do people think
about not putting AV on the Exchange servers themselves?

-- 
Matt Lathrum
General Dynamics Decision Systems        
             When cryptography is outlawed,
             bayl bhgynjf jvyy unir cevinpl.


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