On Wed, Feb 28, 2001 at 11:23:20AM +0100,
Jérémy Cluzel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> and wath about scanners ? which is the best one ? and why ?
> are they really needed for such antivirus ?
> I've heard that some AV (live avp) have their own scanner (which tends to
> replace amavis or qmail scanner).
I my opinion, doing the virus scanning on the mail server is a waste of
resources. It doesn't fully protect the people/systems that need protection
and it wastes resources protecting people/systems that don't need protection.
For people/systems that need antivirus protection, get something on their
desktop that can guard (as well as antvivirus stuff can) against files
entering the system by email, web downloads, portable media and file sharing.
Have something in place to automatically do updates (availability of updates
should be checked daily) from a local mirror. (You don't want to get stuff
directly from the antivirus people as they screw up once in a while and the
updates should be tested for your environment before being used.)
