1. Laptops
A) I have Users who sneak in laptops from home
(non-corporate), they are intelligent enough to connect to the exchange
servers. I would hate to see one of these people bring their world
of home viruses onto my Exchange server.
B) My AV solution on "roaming" laptops is not perfect yet, when I
have people out on the road a while, they seem to pick up viruses now and
then. When they come back, or VPN or dial-up to the network, they
are able to spread their crap.
2. Internal Desktops:
A) In a perfect world, all the desktops are completely
protected at a local level. But my experience has been that the
local PC AV solutions are less then perfect. Again, I am afraid of
Users bringing their crap in from home on floppy's and
CD-ROMS.
3. Remote Desktops
A) Home users using their own PC connected via VPN.
These people are directly connected to the LAN and are directly connecting
to the Exchange server. I have no control of the garbage on their
PC's.
I guess my primary concern is internal havoc. I am scared
about people spreading things internally, example:
1. "Killer Virus" comes out.
2. The Firewall updates itself and begins protecting inbound
SMTP
3. Luser at home gets infected from private
Email
4. Connects to network via VPN, or Direct Dial to RAS
Server.
5. Luser begins spreading "Killer Virus" via the Exchange
server.
6. Internal Users begin suffering from this attack.
(Deleted files? Corrupted MBR? ect. ect.
ect.)
7. Exmerge is not going to help.
Depending on your environment, this scenario may not be applicable
to you, so perhaps I jumped the gun by saying
"ridiculous".
Hi, here is a target on my head, beat me, beat me.
DOH!
Do you have anything
more to add to back up your
statement?
Matt
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From:
Micciche, Robert
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Sent: Wednesday, April 10, 2002
10:13 AM
To:
MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Is virus protection
on the Exchange server necessary?
I think it's
ridiculous.
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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
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