What about performance. What type of overhead or reduction in performance will Declude and the AV program create on my current system? "R. Scott Perry" wrote: > >I saved an email message infected with Sircam virus as a .eml file, and > >tried to scan it with different AV programs. > >of all what I used (Fprot, Mcafee, Sophos, Norton), only norton detected > >the virus. > > That's because the .eml file you saved isn't a virus, it's an E-mail. An > E-mail can contain a virus, but an E-mail file can't be executed. F-Prot > doesn't detect a virus because it can't be run in that form. When you save > the E-mail as an .eml file, there are many different encoding formats that > could be used, and a standard desktop scanner doesn't normally understand them. > > >What does that mean ? if I use Mcafee or fprot with declude, they wont > >detect sircam ? > > They will. Declude will decode the attachment, so F-Prot (or the others) > can detect it. > > >Are you having success intercepting sircam, when using declude with Fprot > >? dos or windows version ? > >what about Mcafee ? > > When F-Prot first came out, people with F-Prot (either DOS or Windows) > detected it immediately; McAfee detected it after an update to the virus > definitions. > > >declude website mentioned a "multiplatform" version of virussacn that can > >run on NT server, wasn't able to find such a product. can anyone point me > >to the right direction ? > > There's a recent E-mail to this list that explains about McAfee and the > product that works on NT server but they don't like to sell. If you really > want to find it, either call them and ask for "One copy of the > MultiPlatform version of VirusScan" or "One copy of the VirusScan Security > Suite" (but be prepared for them to try selling you a $6,000 product > instead of a $60 product). Or, online, first go to > http://www.mcafeeb2b.com, move the mouse over "Products" and select "File > Server Protection". Then, go down and click on "NetShield for NT", then on > the right-hand side of the screen click "Buy", then go down to "VirusScan > Security Suite". They used to let you buy one copy at a time, but they > require orders of 5+ copies now to order online. > > > will declude tech support help us choose configure and test the AV product ? > > Yes, we will. Since we act as the "middleman" getting IMail and the > scanner to communicate with each other, we take care of issues with > Declude, as well as issues getting Declude to interact with IMail and/or > the scanner. > > -Scott > --- > Declude: Anti-virus, Anti-spam and Anti-hijacking solutions for > IMail. http://www.declude.com > > Please visit http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html > to be removed from this list. > > An Archive of this list is available at: > http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/
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