Virus Scan for Exchange

[kimble]

I recently purchased Norton Antivirus Corporate Edition for my server and was wondering why Norton in its Knowledge Base has an article about how to disable the software from scanning exchange folders. It seems to be counter productive.

Can anyone tell me how they've implemented virus protection on their exchange servers. I plan to enable the norton software on mine, and then enable it for outlook on all my clients. Thanks for any input

 

[mcconmw]

I personally have found Trend Micro's ScanMail to be an excellent product for Exchange servers.

 

[ChadStiller]

The Symantec knowledge base article you refer to is for environments that have both the NAV (Norton Anti-Virus) for Exchange & NAV for NT software running on the same machine - you need to disable the NAV client from scanning the Exchange stores & NAV Exch. temp folder to avoid potential conflicts with the Exchange scanning software.

The Symantec Exchange NAV product is needed to protect your Exchange stores, and to scan incoming & outgoing messages before it gets to the user's Outlook client software. The NAV CE (Corporate Edition) provides the local file/memory anti-virus protection, in addition to protecting the local Outlook client. That approach gives you two-tier virus protection, which is a solid start.

The only anti-virus software I've worked with for Exchange is the Norton product, and all in all I've found it to be a decent package. It is not perfect, but if you are already running NAV elsewhere, it plugs right in to the managed environment the Corp. Edition provides.

Chad Stiller, MCSE
Ramcom Technology
cds@ramcom.com