Understood. But that has one drawback, which is that you do not check emails for known bad URLs which are usually phishing attempts and use social engineering. For savvy people like us, no worries, but for consumers and/or clueless end-users, this is an extra layer or protection that can prevent bad infections.
Warm regards, Stu Sjouwerman Founder, VP Marketing. P: +1-727-562-0101 ext 218 F: +1-727-562-5199 [email protected] -----Original Message----- From: Angus Scott-Fleming [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, September 30, 2009 2:13 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: MSE is released... On 29 Sep 2009 at 17:42, Stu Sjouwerman wrote: > Just bear in mind that MSE does -not- filter incoming email. I disable inbound mail filtering as I figure the real-time scanner will catch anything malicious as it's extracted from the email and written to disk. It's the same engine and signatures, so it isn't going to catch anything different. Inbound filters (especially Norton/Symantec AV) have caused some of my clients some serious support nightmares when they can't get email and I have to figure out why. I use Pegasus Mail which has two different HTML display modes (neither depends on IE), doesn't support scripting and doesn't download external images until I tell it to, so I'm safe from the normal Outlook and Outlook Express/IE problems there. My POPfile spamfilter and Pegasus Mail's built-in SpamHalter (another trainable bayesian filter) filter most crap into the spam folder, which gets purged once it hits whatever age I've set (I think I've set 10 days), so I have 10 days to review the "Probably Spam" folder if someone complains that I haven't responded to an email. -- Angus Scott-Fleming GeoApps, Tucson, Arizona 1-520-290-5038 +-----------------------------------+ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ .. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
