RE: Klez.H attack
- From: Matt Dillingham <mdilling@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: "[ExchangeList]" <exchangelist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, denisedorrance@xxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 21 May 2002 12:04:07 -0400
Denise Dorrance wrote:
>
> What exactly is Antigen? Is it a virus software or an Anti-spam software??
>
Denise-
Antigen is an antivirus engine that can scan all writes to the exchange
information store (mailboxes, ect) in real-time, can scan inside the store (as
a scheduled task, on demand, ect), and can scan and intercept messages being
sent across the SMTP virt-server (incoming and outgoing) in real-time.
since we have installed it and cleaned the information store for the first
time, we have not had ANY viruses actually infect anyone's mailbox. everything
has been stopped as incoming SMTP traffic.
i dont know if there is any other solution out there that will work as well or
better than antigen... because once i tried this, i stopped looking. i highly
recommend it.
-matt
PS> however, it does not intercept spam... unless it has a virus- heh heh.
PS> also, i forgot to mention, antigen also has file filtering capability
(block all .exe & .scr, ect), but we are not using it. i do know some people
that are, and i have heard that it works fine.
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Matt Dillingham Systems Administrator II
University of Michigan, Bioinformatics
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