Assuming you follow the directions, you should be ok. As far as the exact product, I'm sure you will find Norton lovers, Norton haters, McAffe lovers, and McAffe haters. I use Symantec Corportate Edition with Exchange snap-in. I've been told that the McAffe works just as good. I think that dillema is more like a Ford vs. Chevy thing for cars. Advocates for both sides. As far as the price, indeed it is expensive. I think ours ran $37 per seat (That sound about right?) which isn't too bad, consider going to Wal-Mart and paying $39.99 per license, that would be one hell of a cart for 100 users ;-) $37 bucks adds up quickly, especially if you have allot of people. I'm very glad my boss bought it, and I was very surprised because previously we only had two copies for ~50 employees, they would just deal with the pain. Had he not, I can almost assure you that our network would have been hurt badly with the recentl email virii. When I did the first corporate scan, we found about ~150 files infected by virii just hiding and waiting for someone to open them / run them, we lost 30-50 files because of this. Hope this helps, I suggest calling a couple suppliers and ask them your questions, take some notes. Compare. Let them know that they are fighting X amount of other companies and you are gathering information about which is is better, cheater, and most efficient (wait, doesn't that fall under the better category?). G'luck. ----------------------- -- Kenny Mann IT Tech / Systems Administrator / Network Administrator C&D Robotics, Inc. 4780 South 23rd Street Beaumont, TX 77705 Phone: (409)-840-5252 Fax: (409)-840-4660 Be courteous, use mail list etiquette. http://etherpunk.com/misc-mail_etiquette.html >-----Original Message----- >From: A. Michael Salim [mailto:msalim@xxxxxxxxxxxx] >Sent: Monday, November 17, 2003 8:31 AM >To: [ExchangeList] >Subject: [exchangelist] RE: blocking emails with attachments >by extension > > >http://www.MSExchange.org/ > >Hi, > >> I think that most Exchange add-ons for Antivirus (IE: McAffe and >> Norton) come with something like that. I did that on our >server for a >> couple virii floating around, it's a god send. Keep in mind that you >> must have the add-on to scan the emails, normal AV will not >scan them. > >That presents another question: what AV software is >recommended? Many vendors out there tout AV products for >"Exchange" but they are either exorbitantly priced. Also I am >told that AV products can damage the mailbox store if you are >not careful, so exactly which products are recommended? For >example, I would appreciate the exact product, not just the >vendor "Norton" or "McAffee" as they each make dozens of products. > >best regards >Mike > > >------------------------------------------------------ >List Archives: http://www.webelists.com/cgi/lyris.pl?enter=exchangelist >Exchange Newsletters: http://www.msexchange.org/pages/newsletter.asp >Exchange FAQ: http://www.msexchange.org/pages/larticle.asp?type=FAQ >------------------------------------------------------ >Other Internet Software Marketing Sites: >Leading Network Software Directory: http://www.serverfiles.com >No.1 ISA Server Resource Site: http://www.isaserver.org >Windows Security Resource Site: http://www.windowsecurity.com/ >Network Security Library: http://www.secinf.net/ Windows >2000/NT Fax Solutions: http://www.ntfaxfaq.com >------------------------------------------------------ >