Email virus protection

Wed Aug 20 19:01:11 UTC 2003

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