Andre John Cruz wrote:
>
> hi everyone,
>
> what's the expected performance penalty associated with scanning
> incoming/outgoing email for viruses? it must be huge since the mail system
> has to start the virus scanning program and then terminate and then start
> another again when a new email comes in...is there some way to have the
> virus scanner sort of like a daemon process so that it doesn't have to keep
> on starting/shutting down everytime mail comes in/out?
I guess it depends on what antivirus scanner you're using Trend Micro's
Interscan (I think that's what it's called) runs in front of your actual
SMTP server and reads mail as it goes through.
Brian
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