This topic has been discussed many times on the ISP list I'm on. Most would never offer general virus protection services because of the risk of liability should a virus get thru.
Those that would offer it, would have a clear statement limiting liability. Of course, outside the litigious USA, YMMV. best, paul At 10:33 AM 3/5/02 -0800, you wrote: >HI Chris.. its McAfee's turn to evaluate.. I haven't done it before so I >cannot tall yet.. but I will on a couple of weeks.. I will start today >with some local domains that wont affect our commercial services. the >Trend micro solution would cost about 17 usd for each user a year.. Its >not that much if our current customers would agree of paying the extra to >solve the invest problem but the fact is that in general they wont like >the idea of paying more even if they will have a large benefit from a smtp >virus gateway. Other strategy would be to have it optional .. if we go >that way Trend micro would be the option.. I am very pleased with their >product (http://www.antivirus.com/products/ismss/features.htm) .. bad >thing about Trend Micro is that the local Trend Micro re seller in >Monterrey Mexico wants every name and intern customer information to see >the actual number of licences we need.. that's really out of the question >:-\ .. that's private information and they don't have the right of asking >or knowing our customers names .. this is value information and most of >all, 'private', from my personal point of view.. they need to have a >little trust on the customer.. > >note: >I am taking just about the local re seller in our city.. don't want to >offend if there is any Trend Micro re seller on the list. > >getting back to ims/virus talk.. the negative side about smtp gateways is >that smart delivery can't be used since it doesn't use smtp to send .. > >Regards > >At 10:33 AM 3/5/2002 -0500, you wrote: >>Guillermo, >> >>I'd be VERY interested to know what you find in regards to using >>McAfee's virus gateway. The licensing at Network Associates for >>enterprise use of McAfee products is interesting to say the least >>but I am already a licensee of their Total Virus Defense product >>which includes their WebSheid SMTP product (I think). >> >>Just out of curiosity how much is a licenses of the Micro Trend >>product for 2500 users? >> >>-Chris >> >> >>On 4 Mar 2002, at 20:40, Guillermo Dewey wrote: >> >> > we have being in a long journey of evaluating all kinds of smtp virus >> > getways on the last months.. by now from all the ones I have tested Micro >> > Trend SMTP getway is the best.. its so stable and fast.. this month's >> > turn is for mcafee smtp gateway I will set it up tomorrow.. has any body >> > test it before? is not that I work for the consumer report magazine :P >> > but I don't want to make a mistake again buy paying as I did before for a >> > virus getway that is not stable or goes beyond our budget like micro >> > trend's :( licences for over 2500 users are expensive >> > >> > regards >> > >> > At 09:25 PM 3/4/2002 -0500, you wrote: >> > >Sorry about the late reply. iMS does not have any hooks for virus >> > >scanning perse, but, of course, it does hook into CF at several points >> > >during the SMTP protocol. So, what you would need to do is decode the >> > >mail into a temp folder and then call a command-line virus scanner with >> > >cfexecute and process it that way. In the future there will be a better >> > >mechanism for doing this. >> > > >> > >Regards, >> > > >> > >Howie >> > >>----- Original Message ----- >> > >>From: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>Kevin Langevin >> > >>To: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>inFusion Support List >> > >>Sent: Saturday, March 02, 2002 11:16 AM >> > >>Subject: [iMS] Virus Protection on Win2K ServerAdv. Server w/ iMS >> > >> >> > >>I know this thread has surfaced before, but I'm looking for a good virus >> > >>protection program to run on my Win2K Adv. Server machine which will >> work >> > >>with iMS well. 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