email scanning

WipeOut · 26th March 2004

Can anyone point me to companies that do email virus scanning?

What I mean is I point my MX for my domain to them, then scan for viruses and forward the mail to me server after its been scanned..

I know of Message Labs but there must be lots of others..

Thanks

Andrew · 26th March 2004

Can you not just install MailScanner/ clam or F-prot and run it in-house?

dch · 27th March 2004

Hi,

I have no experience of them - but http://www.emailfiltering.co.uk/ is one.

Cheers,
Sean

robk · 27th March 2004

ooops, you already know MessageLabs

othellotech · 27th March 2004

cant remember the rules on self advertisement

actually i'd recommend you running it in-house if you can.

Cranky · 30th March 2004

We've added gateway servers to scan mail (antivirus by default, antispam options) before passing to our core mail servers for high-end clients, non-clients, and for servers on which adding local scanning would be difficult. Might be worth considering setting up something similar?

dch · 30th March 2004

Incase you're still interested looks like tucows may also offer one, again - not check it or used it etc...

https://rrc.tucows.com/releasenotes/email/emaildefense

markcastle · 30th March 2004

I think you need to be a reseller to see that page Sean.

dch · 30th March 2004

Thanks for pointing that out Mark

Didn't realise as they just mailed it to me - I never checked it out - If anyone cares for the details who is not an OSRS reseller just PM me or ask me to post it I'll sort it out

Cheers,
Sean

WipeOut · 31st March 2004

Quote:

Originally Posted by Cranky

We've added gateway servers to scan mail (antivirus by default, antispam options) before passing to our core mail servers for high-end clients, non-clients, and for servers on which adding local scanning would be difficult. Might be worth considering setting up something similar?

Yes this sounds like a good idea..

I have also been looking into ClamAV which looks quite good and is updated regularly..

I guess running as much inhouse as possible is always a good way to go..

Later..

Andrew · 31st March 2004

ClamAV is a nice little AV program

You shouldn't have any problems with it.

Cranky · 3rd April 2004

Quote:

I guess running as much inhouse as possible is always a good way to go..

Maybe, but not best in all ways. For example, if you used a mail gateway from another provider they would probably hold your mail until your mailserver came back up if your network died, or the mailserver itself crashed, etc. Adds redundancy.

There's pros and cons to running inhouse or outsourcing - just need to find a balance.

blacknight · 8th April 2004

Quote:

Originally Posted by Andrew

ClamAV is a nice little AV program

You shouldn't have any problems with it.

It's not bad, but f-prot and other commercial AV are a lot better.

outtasking · 30th June 2004

Go in-house , nowadays this is not a complex issue, use clamav

regards

blacknight · 30th June 2004

Quote:

Originally Posted by outtasking

Go in-house , nowadays this is not a complex issue, use clamav

regards

It depends on your market, but I would not entrust paying clients email solely to clamav and dismissing email scanning as "not a complex issue" is very naive. You may not think it is complex, but I've seen too many companies make a mess of this.