RE: EX2k ot

["Mark Harrison" <Mark.Harrison@xxxxxxx>]

Matthew,

 

Tell me about it :-)

 

Seriously, though... I know I have a certain reputation for being paranoid about IT security, but remember what I do :-)

 

Our approach is "defence in depth"... as such, there are _three_ lines of defence against email viruses...

 

1: Messagelabs service.

 

2: Netstore who run our Exchange servers _actually_ provide a server-side virus scanner, on a dedicate "beachhead" server. This keeps "nasty" applications off the main Exchange servers.

 

3: Desktop clients. The McCrappee ASP thingy, set to automatically update daily.

 

...the only one that never finds viruses is the Netstore one - because they've already been captured by Messagelabs.

 

Messagelabs is one of the few Internet services I get evangelistic about :-)

 

I just wish they offered a "single-user" version for home :-(

 

Regards,

 

Mark

 

 -----Original Message-----
From: Matthew J Keay [mailto:m@xxxxxxx]
Sent: 4 July 2002 16:07
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxxSubject: RE: [ukha_d] EX2k ot

We did look at this although since a lot of of email is between different parts of the company group via internal links. We also wanted to prevent users with possibly insecure machines sending viruses. (we have a lot of laptop users)

matthew

At 16:02 04/07/2002 +0100, you wrote:

Amar,
 
If it were for the company, I wouldn't do it that way...
 
We have all our mail scanned by Messagelabs _before_ it reaches our servers. The cost is £1.50/user month, but the bad news is that there's a minimum of 50 users per organisation.
 
I'd _never_ go back to an in-house, server-based solution!
 
Regards,
 
Mark
 
 
 
 

-----Original Message-----

From: Amar Nagi [mailto:amar@xxxxxxx]

Sent: 4 July 2002 15:47

To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx

Subject: [ukha_d] EX2k ot

those of you with exchange server

what would you recommend as a good spam and anti virus software

to run on the exchange server ?

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