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
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