Marko,
They do have antivirus software on each of the machines. I do not think that it is
installed in the correct matter. Every morning when
we start up our machines, they go this long drawn out process. It takes about 3
minutes to get all the way through it. It runs a bunch of
vb scripts, so I do not think that the antivirus knows the difference between what is
being run as norm or what is a virus. Most of the other companies
that I have worked at know how to do this on the firewall.
One Email, yes you could punish the offenders, but in some places that would be the
entire company. So it would be better to stop it
before it starts. My point is that this admin stopping it so he can read them is not
the same. Kind of the old saying do as I say not as I
do. I can see him scanning them looking for something that is hurting the company,
and that would be all...
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On 9/21/2000 at 2:47 PM Marko Vukovic wrote:
>Steven Pierce <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>
>>
>> That is not true. A company can read anything that is sent into their
>computers. I think that what the other person did, by blocking specific mail
>so he could read it is not someone that I would want at my company. Blocking
>this kind of mail so that it would not waste company time would be OK. So
>much time is lost during the day of people reading and sending mail like this
>is staggering. Also that is how a lot of the virus get into companies. I
>just left a company that had sooooo many virus, that they would post notices
>on every wall telling users not to open a specific message.
>>
>
>Why post bits of paper everywhere? Why didn't they just install antivirus
>software on their firewall/mail server/all desktops?
>
>Yes, it's true that a lot of time is lost during the day on emails. Just look
>at us ;) This is not that difficult to manage - one can easily look at traffic
>summaries and then just reprimand offenders
>
>--
>Marko.
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