> The web mail interacts directly with IMail - bypassing all the
> gateways, scanners, etc between it and the mean nasty world out
> there. Unless Ipswitch puts hooks into IMail to support AV
> scanning, this will be a big hole in your defenses.
Actually, this shouldn't be too big a hole. The web interface does communicate
directly with IMail (via SMTP, believe it or not). But, the worms can't go through
web mail (at least none of the current ones). That love virus could be read by the
web mail, but when coming in, it would pass through a virus scanner/filter/whatever.
If the person reading it did open the attachment, it would only get sent out through
Outlook -- which would be set to send directly to the virus scanning software.
The only holes I see with the web mail and viruses is if [1] A user purposely attaches
a file, that happened to be infected by a virus, or [2] A new virus comes out that
knows to send via web mail (but in that case, it would still have to come up with
names to send to).
-Scott
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