OK I wasn't planning on continuing my argument but since others are for me!
...
> Incidentally, I dislike NT, Microsoft Outlook and Exchange as much as you
> probably do.
I dislike them as well. All our servers are transitioning to linux/openbsd
EXCEPT for this one virus-scanning machine. Virtually a day after the "I
Love you" virus was realised, Norton had a fix for it and liveupdate
automatically updated it on our server. This change was propogated to every
client in the building, as well as used in scanning of e-mails. Luckily this
prestigous event happened largely on a weekend and so the few e-mails which
got through the server were then killed on Monday when the user went to read
their e-mail...We have stopped countless hundreds of this virus, and tens of
thousands of other virii with this firewall-style approach.
> come in with dozens of viruses -- usually some combination of Stoned or
> Monkey with a few other oldies. These are all caught by modern anti virus
> software and thus it _should_ be installed on machines. McAfee VirusScan
> for workstations is only $15 (cost).
Totally agreed with. You can't always catch the latest and greatest virii
with virus scanning software and yes killing every binary attachment is an
approach to removing the possibility altogether, but in many cases that is
just not an option. Killing script files, ok...can understand that. Less
impact on working habits, 95% agree with it. I trust stuff I pay for more
than free, open source scripting efforts. Just a peace-of-mind. Norton are
not overly bloated. Lotus' Notes is, to some extent, bloated, but we have
been using it for the last couple of years with thousands of e-mails coming
through and being scanned daily and have had no obvious problems thus far...
Brett.
Manager
InterPlanetary Solutions
http://ipsware.com/
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> Sent: Saturday, August 05, 2000 12:36 AM
> To: qmail list; Robin S. Socha
> Subject: Re: Anti Virus
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