Shoudl I scan the badmail directory?

[jfk8680]

Hi,

I am using Microsoft Exchange Server 2000 (SP3), Norton Antivirus Corporate Edition 7.61.0.950 and Symantec AntiVirus/Filtering for Microsoft Exchange 2000 v3.0.10.89.

I have made the reccomended exclusions in Norton Antivirus to prevent database corruption but I have a question about the 'badmail' directory:

Should I scan this directory with Norton Antivirus. I keep getting virus notifications on files in the badmail directory. Since all my mail is scanned by SAVFMSE I am wondering if I should still scan the badmail directory...

regards,

Jeffrey

 

[Davetoo]

It's not hurting to scan the \badmail directory in any way. What you may want to consider is just emptying your badmail folder on a daily basis, this will get rid of thees files that are triggering the alerts.

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[jfk8680]

I know it won't damage anything if I scan the badmail directory but I was getting a little tired of getting about 200+ e-mail notifications per day that Novarg was detected in v:\badmail\....

Anyway, I created a scheduled task which clears the badmail directory on a regular basis.

thanks for the input...

Jeffrey