Antivirus for Exchange

We are currently running Norton Antivirus 7.5 corporate edition to protect
our serer and desktops. It is working very well. All desktops are forced to
install the antivirus as part of login script. It doesn't let a user open an
attachment without saving it to disk first at which point it scans it for
viruses.

My questions are:
1. What are the advantages of an Exchange aware A/V over the above setup?
2. What Exchange protection would you recommend?
3. How does this compare with the SMTP filtering through ISA Feature Pack?
4. What are your thoughts on ISA antivirus protection? ie Benefit vs Cost?

My current inclination is to look at the Symantec enterprise products
(MailProtection etc) as I am hoping they will share the same scan engine as
our existing corporate edition.
Another cosideration is content filtering (email & web) which I will have to
address at some point in the future. If I could get that now it would be a
bonus.

--
Darwood - MCP, MCSE

Robert
Tue Sep 02 15:17:14 CDT 2003

Darwood:

I have two clients running Norton Antivirus 7.5 corporate edition. One of
them also runs Symantec Antivirus for Microsoft Exchange. The
W32.Sobig.F@mm virus hit them both last week. The company running Symantec
Antivirus for Microsoft Exchange caught the infected attachment at the
server level. The other company caught the infected attachment at the
client level because the client's realtime protection was enabled. The
Exchange add on does give an extra level of protection. But, if properly
configured, both options have the same result.

Symantec Antivirus for Microsoft Exchange does have spam and content
filtering which might appeal to you. I'm not currently using them.

Rob

"Darwood" <darrenw@nospamme.woodfordcomputers.co.uk> wrote in message
news:e0yd9XTcDHA.1696@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...
> We are currently running Norton Antivirus 7.5 corporate edition to protect
> our serer and desktops. It is working very well. All desktops are forced
to
> install the antivirus as part of login script. It doesn't let a user open
an
> attachment without saving it to disk first at which point it scans it for
> viruses.
>
> My questions are:
> 1. What are the advantages of an Exchange aware A/V over the above setup?
> 2. What Exchange protection would you recommend?
> 3. How does this compare with the SMTP filtering through ISA Feature Pack?
> 4. What are your thoughts on ISA antivirus protection? ie Benefit vs Cost?
>
> My current inclination is to look at the Symantec enterprise products
> (MailProtection etc) as I am hoping they will share the same scan engine
as
> our existing corporate edition.
> Another cosideration is content filtering (email & web) which I will have
to
> address at some point in the future. If I could get that now it would be a
> bonus.
>
> --
> Darwood - MCP, MCSE
>
>
>
>

Darwood
Thu Sep 04 08:22:12 CDT 2003

Hi Robert
Thank you very much for your advice. I will have a think about the options.
Regards
--
Darwood - MCP, MCSE


"Robert Harris" <robertharris@robertharris!com> wrote in message
news:emwj08YcDHA.1552@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl...
> Darwood:
>
> I have two clients running Norton Antivirus 7.5 corporate edition. One of
> them also runs Symantec Antivirus for Microsoft Exchange. The
> W32.Sobig.F@mm virus hit them both last week. The company running
Symantec
> Antivirus for Microsoft Exchange caught the infected attachment at the
> server level. The other company caught the infected attachment at the
> client level because the client's realtime protection was enabled. The
> Exchange add on does give an extra level of protection. But, if properly
> configured, both options have the same result.
>
> Symantec Antivirus for Microsoft Exchange does have spam and content
> filtering which might appeal to you. I'm not currently using them.
>
> Rob
>
> "Darwood" <darrenw@nospamme.woodfordcomputers.co.uk> wrote in message
> news:e0yd9XTcDHA.1696@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...
> > We are currently running Norton Antivirus 7.5 corporate edition to
protect
> > our serer and desktops. It is working very well. All desktops are forced
> to
> > install the antivirus as part of login script. It doesn't let a user
open
> an
> > attachment without saving it to disk first at which point it scans it
for
> > viruses.
> >
> > My questions are:
> > 1. What are the advantages of an Exchange aware A/V over the above
setup?
> > 2. What Exchange protection would you recommend?
> > 3. How does this compare with the SMTP filtering through ISA Feature
Pack?
> > 4. What are your thoughts on ISA antivirus protection? ie Benefit vs
Cost?
> >
> > My current inclination is to look at the Symantec enterprise products
> > (MailProtection etc) as I am hoping they will share the same scan engine
> as
> > our existing corporate edition.
> > Another cosideration is content filtering (email & web) which I will
have
> to
> > address at some point in the future. If I could get that now it would be
a
> > bonus.
> >
> > --
> > Darwood - MCP, MCSE
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
>