there's a 4th. educate stupid end users.
-Mr. 0 viruses in 8 years with no virus protection, ever.
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Anthony J. Biacco Network Administrator/Engineer
[EMAIL PROTECTED] Intergrafix Internet Services
"Dream as if you'll live forever, live as if you'll die today"
http://www.asteroid-b612.org http://www.intergrafix.net
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On Thu, 28 Sep 2000, Leonard Hermens wrote:
> 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
> >-----------------------------------------------------
> >InvictaNet - The Internet in Plain English, Guaranteed
> >http://www.invictanet.co.uk
> >mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >phone: 0870 7402252
> >fax: +44 (0)1233 334001
> >------------------------------------------------------
> >
> >-----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
>
>
