Alex, If you purchased IMail Anti-Virus they you are scanning all email messages for viruses. Nothing else is required. We handle decoding the message and scanning it. I think the confusion here is that you used the brand name Norton in one of your messages. That is the generally the brand that Symantec uses for their desktop scanning programs. IMail Anti-Virus is a server side solution and will not scan files on your hard drive. Declude does more than just virus scanning but I'll leave that description to those who know it better than I do. There are plenty of people who run both Declude and IMail Anti-Virus. If you search back through the archives you will find plenty of customers using Declude.
John Korsak Product Marketing Manager, IMail Server ----- Original Message ----- From: "Alejandro Valenzuela" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, March 20, 2002 2:55 PM Subject: RE: [IMail Forum] Anti-virus > 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/ > 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/
