>I had to turn my norton's antivirus off just to keep my mail servers
>running.
That is a very wise idea. Otherwise, huge amounts of unnecessary CPU time
can be used up. For example, if someone has a 40MB .mbx file, Norton will
scan a 40MB file each time a 1K E-mail arrives. And, since Norton likely
won't be able to catch many viruses (typically desktop scanners only catch
HTML viruses, as they don't know the .MBX file format), the benefits are
minimal. And, if a virus is detected, that whole 40MB file will get
deleted -- not too nice for the recipient.
That's why SMTP-based virus scanners (such as out Declude Virus, and IMail
AntiVirus) are so useful.
-Scott
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