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by megtek 1 view

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Hi. I need some suggestions on the best way to scan for viruses in an e-mail system. I have Exchange 2003. I am running Norton Anti-Virus corporate edition on the server, and have it set to scan Exchange. Clients are still getting viruses delivered to their inbox. Their NAV on their PC is catching them, luckily...but why are they even being delivered? I would like to configure the server to strip the file from the e-mail and send the e-mail through with an indication that a virus was found and stripped from the e-mail. What products can I look into? Or - maybe I have my NAV at the server configured wrong?

Thank you.

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by parthiv_13

If PC is catching the Viruses then probably on your server its configured wrong. Or some policies or options you have not configured properly for Network.

You may have McAfee for your Solution. Its better for Servers and Internet or Intranet things in compare with Norton.

by curlergirl

If you have the Symantec Enterprise Edition license of their antivirus suite, then you already have a license for Symantec Mail Security for Exchange. This is the element that scans email at the Exchange gateway, and you need to install and configure it on your Exchange server to accomplish what you want to do. If you don't have the Enterprise level license for SAVCE, then you can upgrade your current license or order it separately. Once you get the SMSMSE license, the virus definitions are downloaded and installed at the same time as your SAVCE definition updates for that server. For example, if you have a parent server that is configured to download the defs and distribute them to the other servers and clients in your domain, then your SMSMSE defs will automatically get updated also. If you are downloading defs separately through live update from each server/client, then the SMSMSE defs will be updated whenever live update runs on the Exchange server.

Hope this helps!

by megtek

I have the "Microsoft Exchange Realtime Protection" installed on the server. When I run a custom scan and scan the Exchange message stores, it comes up with a ton of viruses that I have automatically delete. But how do I get Symantec to automatically scan these directories (message stores) whenever mail comes in with viruses?

by ltop

Hi, while I cant comment on NAV, I use SOPHOS Mailmonitor for SMTP, although they have versions specifically for Exchange 2000 and prob Exchange 2003.

To setup, there is a small text file for configuration - not a huge file like the Samba config - and plenty of options to choose from to help stop the problem e-mails getting thru.

Sorry I cant help with the NAV config, but can you set it to block e-mails containing files with certain characteristics - like executables, or even zip files, which the current explosion of virii utilise.

best of luck

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