[ale] Defending windows networks against email borne virii

[Bob Toxen]

I sell a very effective Linux-based Enterprise-class virus filter (and
spam filter) that would solve this problem quite nicely for a very reasonable
price.

Bob Toxen
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On Fri, Nov 07, 2003 at 11:35:26AM -0500, Jonathan Glass wrote:
> > 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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