Hi,
My .001 cents worth. There are three camps to this. One says prevent
viruses via transport (FTP, file sharing, email, etc.) One says protect the
desktops individually. The third says do both.
However, we cannot afford to equip all of our transport mechanisms at $10K
a pop. We can protect desktop computers much more inexpensively and manage
them just as well. But none of the three detection methods work with new or
unknown viruses anyway.
And I realize that this is way off track from the intent of the Qpopper list.
-- Leonard
At 10:20 AM 9/28/2000, InvictaNet Customer Support wrote:
>At the risk of starting a forest fire, I have to say, Jeff, that I think
>your response is more than a little childish.
>
>The fact is that a virus problem exists and Microsoft are never going to do
>anything about the "features" in their software that allow these viruses to
>propagate.
>
>You are correct that xnix servers are not directly affected by Microsoft
>type viruses but even the best mail server can be brought to its knees by
>the throughput generated by an attack such as "I LOVE YOU".
>
>Internet Mail Servers are the best place to stop viruses. In fact, with good
>planning, I see no reason why virus transfer should not be completely
>eradicated - If every Internet Mail Server ran anti-virus software, viruses
>could only ever attack local networks.
>
>
>Martyn Routley
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: Jeff Earickson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>Sent: Thursday, September 28, 2000 3:14 PM
>To: Len Conrad
>Cc: Subscribers of Qpopper
>Subject: Re: virus scan for qpopper?
>
>
>Y'all,
> I've tried amavis in the past, and while it works fairly well, virus
>scanning on a mail hub isn't worth it IMHO. The CPU cycles needed to
>break out attachments and run them thru a virus scanner are large, and
>for all that effort I didn't seem to catch much. It was a
>waste of CPU at our site, and I gave up on it. My opinion is that
>virii are frankly a Microsoft problem because of the design of their
>OS and their use of VB scripts. Microsoft needs to address the problem
>at their end...
>
>--- Jeff Earickson
