Based on cost and the location of the company offering it, I would avoid
this program.  The way that the program scans emails is bizarre, and I
can imagine quite a few situations where viruses could get through.
Declude Virus is proven, efficient, effective, and affordable.  If you
are thinking about spending more than $500 for an A/V solution, I think
it's the only way to go, IMHO.

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-----Original Message-----
From: Evan Pearce [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Thursday, March 18, 2004 8:45 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] Another Virus scanner

On 19/03/2004 at 11:53:54, Dave Riddle wrote:

> Anyone tried this product?
> http://www.imailzip.com

Haven't tried it, but judging from the "how it works" description it
actually locks the .mbx file (IMail locking), opens it, processes it,
writes a replacement back to disk and then unlocks it. Every time you
receive a message. And if you've got 100 messages in there when the
101st arrives, it'll process all 101 messages even though it's already
seen the first 100. And if the ImailZip service stops for some reason,
infected mail will be silently delivered intact instead of being held in
the queue until the problem is fixed.

I'm sure there's a reason for doing it that way instead of just
analysing incoming messages through the normal hook (like Declude and
mxGuard). There has to be - nobody would even dream of such inefficient
and failure-prone processing without a good reason. And if someone works
out what that reason is, please enlighten me. :)

Cheers,
Evan


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