On Wednesday October 03, 2007 at 02:16:30 (PM) Joao S Veiga wrote: > > If one has hundreds of thousands of users, > > I only have 50 users; I can put those wasted watts to work at night when the > servers are idle. > > > At some point you have to pass the responsibility onto the end user > > (personal > > virus scanner, updated regularly), otherwise you make yourself liable for > > their > > actions/mistakes. > > Yet, you'll be liable for having passed the responsability for someone who > makes > mistakes :-D > > We have no "resident" virus scanner on the PCs. I do what I can in the server > side, keep their windows up-to-date, and terrorize them into safe behavior. > In 13 > years, just 4 minor events (always from new, yet unterrorized users - I made > them > feel very liable after the events).
All mail is scanned at the server here also; however, each user also has a virus scanner on their machine. In our particular situation, Postfix and clamav are used to receive and scan the incoming mail. The majority of our users are employing WinXP machines with ZoneAlarm Suite installed. On several occasions, ZA has caught a virus that got passed Clamav. I personally believe that the use of two separate AV engines is far superior to just using one, updating it several times and rescanning the mail, especially since as was pointed out previously, by the time it is caught, it has probably all ready delivered its payload. Just my 2ยข. -- Gerard _______________________________________________ Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: visit http://wiki.clamav.net http://lurker.clamav.net/list/clamav-users.html
