Re: Email virus protection

[Jack Bates <jbates () brightok net>]

Christopher J. Wolff wrote:

> Hello,
>
> What is the most common method for providing virus protection for your
> hosted email customers?  Thank you in advance.

The best method for protection of your network (by limiting exposure of 
your users to viruses) is to strip executable files. We replace the 
files with a small text file mentioning the filename and a brief 
description of why we stripped it and who to contact if they need the file.

I recommend executable stripping before virus scanning in all cases. 
Virus scanning is still vulnerable to startup viruses (Sobig-F could 
have infected numberous users before the dat files update).

-Jack