[ale] Defending windows networks against email borne virii

[Jonathan Glass]

> Any open or reasonably priced products out there that attempt to do this?
> We have an exchange server in house and a bunch of DAUs with anything from
> XP to 95 on their machines.  We're currently being killed by a few worms.
>
> I need to find something that'll cleanse these virii before they have the
> opportunity to run it.
>
> Looking for suggestions....
>
> Thanks!
> John
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I put a Linux mail-relay machine between the world and the exchange
server, and route all mail through it.  THen I use Spamassassin
(http://www.spamassassin.org), and John Hardin's mail sanitizer
(http://www.impsec.org) to kill most worms before they make it to
exchange.  John even has a howto on protecting exchange servers with
Linux/Sendmail.

You can even get some cool anti-virus tie-ins to scan for virii on the
relay box...thus saving processing time one the exchange box itself.

Thanks & HTH

Jonathan Glass


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Jonathan Glass
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IBB/GTEC
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