Hi Scott, then, the antivirus solution that comes with imail is a File scanner not a Message Scanner ??
Thanks.. Alex Valenzuela -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of R. Scott Perry Sent: Wednesday, March 20, 2002 11:07 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] Anti-virus >We purchased IMail with Norton Anti-virus and it seems to work very well >for us. Be aware that Norton Anti-Virus is great for protecting files on the server, but isn't designed to protect E-mail. Because of that, it may or may not be able to detect viruses in various encoding formats, and may or may not handle them in the way you desire (IE if you set it to delete viruses, and it finds a virus amount the 1,000 E-mails in an .mbx file, it will delete all 1,000 E-mails). It also has no idea how to send E-mail notifications (letting the recipient, sender, etc. know that a virus was detected). And it can't handle things like the Outlook CR vulnerability. You may want to go to http://www.declude.com/tools and use the Test Mail Sender to see how well protected you are. A program designed to protect E-mail (such as Norton's NAVIEG) will usually catch all of the different encodings, but a standard virus scanner often won't catch any. >However, I keep reading about all the benefits of Declude. Is Declude a >product that I could run in tandem with IMail/Norton? Yes. It's the "glue" that will let the $30 AV program act like a $3,000 (or $30,000 or whatever) SMTP-based virus scanner. Note, however, that since Norton doesn't allow their software to be used in automated environments, it's the one AV program we don't recommend using with Declude (it's possible to get around that, but most people prefer using another program). >Have any of you purchased the Norton option and then switched to >Declude? If so, why? Are you referring to NAVIEG (the expensive SMTP-based virus scanner) or Norton AntiVirus (the inexpensive file scanner)? We do have some people who purchase one of the SMTP-based virus scanners that switch to Declude. People who use a standard AV program (such as Norton AntiVirus or Netshield) aren't usually protected against viruses, so there is nothing to switch from. -Scott --- Declude: Anti-virus, Anti-spam and Anti-hijacking solutions for IMail. http://www.declude.com --- [This E-mail was scanned for viruses by Declude Virus (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/ Please visit the Knowledge Base for answers to frequently asked questions: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/ 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/ Please visit the Knowledge Base for answers to frequently asked questions: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/
