Sree,
I assumed that you had a direct link to the Internet and I did not realize
you were using Imail in a dial-up gateway configuration. Even putting that
fact aside, have you tried directing Nav to autoscan all text files whenever
a text file is created or accessed? I'm assuming you know that you can
direct it to scan specify file types after opening Nav by going to Options |
Auto-Protect | Select (under the What to scan area). I would think that
even as text files, Nav would be able to pick up on any attachments/macros
that contained a known virus pattern. Have you found that to be wrong?
Randy
----- Original Message -----
From: "Sreedhar Rao" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, January 04, 2000 12:04 AM
Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] Problem reagrding the virus Detection andOutgoing
messages.
I have already done that..but the problem is that my IMAIL by itself
doesn't connect to the ISP to collect the mails. It gets it's mails from
another internal gateway software...which is installed on the machine which
is dialing to the ISP.
I am not sure whether NAV will be able to detect the IMAIL mbx files....for
they are just plain text files..it happened several times...that the virus
is there on the machine and it doen't detect unless I donwload it on my
machine and run the Antivirus.
Anyhow thankx for the suggestion....I have installed the latest Sysmantec
pack...for the Antivirus..and put it on schedule.
Sree
At 11:23 PM 1/3/00 -0600, you wrote:
>Sree,
>
>I don't know how to help you out with the filters as I haven't had much of
a
>chance to work with them, however I can help you out on the anti-virus
>issue. What I've done to address the email virus risk is to install Norton
>Antivirus 5.0 on each mail server (not necessarily on the gateway machine).
>I then instructed Antivirus to scan all of the files in the Imail queue
>whenever they are created/accessed, etc. To avoid some further overhead
>administration, I setup Norton's scheduler to automatically grab virus
>defintion update files on a nightly basis and to do scans of the entire
>server a couple of times each week. Using this method, I've been able to
>stop amazing amounts of email viruses that have come through the email
>servers I administrate.
>
>Randy
>[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Sreedhar Rao" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Sent: Monday, January 03, 2000 11:02 PM
>Subject: [IMail Forum] Problem reagrding the virus Detection and Outgoing
>messages.
>
>
>Hi Folks,
>Well here is my problem and requirement.
>I am using an Older Imail version.IMail 4.04 ..
>I am a bit novice in this field of Filters...etc.
>I want these two features.
>1. I want to restrict the internal domain users from sending any
>attachments through their mail clients...let's say they can't send any
>files ending with .doc extensions.
>Even if they want to send I should be able to restrict them to send to only
>particular address.
>2. How can I prescan all the incoming messages for Viruses. I am using my
>mail server on an NT machine which is the PDC.
>I am using another member server which runs a gateway ...which captures all
>the emails from the net...and distributes it to the internal mail software.
>Now Symantec has a software for virus scanning for the email gateways..but
>when I tried to install it...it said that it can't recognize the server...I
>mean while installating..it comes up with the box to enter the SMTP gateway
>IP...and when I give the IP...it says...can't recognize ...and I have to
>abort the installation.
>
>Waiting to hear from you people.
>I am sure somebody must be having a solution to this.
>Sree
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