I absolutely disagree.
You guys remember those Outlook bugs a few months ago? We didn't have one
get in here, although I was returning dozens of rejected mails to other
companies that got hit. Given how hard it is to arrange timely upgrading
of desktop antivirus software over an enterprise on every computer, I'm not
terribly surprised that the other companies got hit.
I am not saying that desktop virus detectors are not important, they are
very
important *too. The operative word is too. Use both, but check the
statistics on
how many viruses are getting sent by email first - just to check my
reasoning out.
A good mail checker that gets updated multi-daily will keep bugs out
extremely
effectively. With windoze you take your chances with viruses, if you just
use a
desktop scanner - face it the operating system is riddled with holes that
have
to be filled almost hourly :)
(My favorite is Sophos with-in qmail, I LIKE IT, but this letter isn't meant
to
be a plug.)
Cheers
-Mike
-----Original Message-----
From: Bruno Wolff III [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, February 28, 2001 8:59 AM
To: Jérémy Cluzel
Cc: Qmail cr.yp.to
Subject: Re: [Qmail-scanner-general]amavis or qmail-scanner ?
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.)
