SUMMARY
Information about anti-virus solutions that work with MailEnable
Professional and Enterprise Editions.
DETAIL
Both MailEnable Professional
and Enterprise Editions provide an anti-virus plug-in that can scan mail messages for viruses
as they pass through the Mail Transfer Agent. The following overviews are
provided to assist in selecting an anti-virus application for your MailEnable
implementation.
F-Prot
Sophos
Panda
Grisoft AVG
| Company: |
Grisoft |
| Product
Name: |
AVG |
| Versions: |
Version
6 |
| Configuration Guidelines: |
Article ME020286 |
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Symantec Norton Antivirus
McAfee VirusScan
MailEnable recommends trialling the anti-virus
software before you purchase. It is also worth mentioning that some anti-virus
agents require that the MailEnable Mail Transfer agent run with elevated
privileges.
Real Time
Protection
Some anti-virus agents cannot exclude directories or
file types from their real time protector. This may
produce unpredictable results if real-time virus protectors are monitoring and protecting critical MailEnable directories.
It may be better disable real-time protectors on servers because they
drastically inhibit disk I/O. An option is to schedule scans rather than using
the real-time protector. Further reduce the risk by not running desktop applications on
the server itself (e.g. mail clients). The following table outlines the
current features of leading anti-virus manufacturers with respect to
configuring real-time virus protection.
| Norton AntiVirus Corporate
Edition |
Can exclude directories and
file types. |
| McAfee VirusScan |
Can exclude directories and
file types. |
| Panda |
Can exclude specific
directories. |
| AVG |
No ability to exclude
directories or file types. |
| Norman |
Can
exclude directories and files. |
| F-Prot |
No ability to exclude
directories or file types. |
Note: Any errors or omissions contained within this
article are unintentional. For accurate and up to date information it is recommended to
consult the manual or web site of respective software package. Whilst MailEnable
provides a means for you to integrate anti-virus software, always check the
licensing agreement supplied with the anti-virus software to determine any
licensing constraints.
MORE INFORMATION
How to
configure MailEnable's anti-virus
plug-in?: Article ME020199
Debugging the anti-virus support
and the Mail Transfer Agent:
Article ME020121
Tuning the anti-virus plug-in
and the Mail Transfer Agent:
Article ME020147
How anti-virus filtering works
and how to configure it: Article ME020056 | 
