RE: Notes and Virus Scanning

I was told the same thing several years ago.  I am running shared folders
and had e-mail and files stored there.  IBM told me that they were working
on a solution.  After they discontinued their AV product and moved their
users to Norton, they told me that Norton would develop a solution.  I would
not hold my breath.  I set up a station with drive mappings to my
AS/400 folders(IFS) and schedule it to automatically scan all drives once a
week.  I recommend a solution that can read MIME attachments.  Also - there
are E-mail Antivirus gateways.  You can one of these in the path of your
email to protect against virus's coming from E-mails.  Of course, it would
run on an NT box.


-----Original Message-----
From: owner-midrange-l@midrange.com
[mailto:owner-midrange-l@midrange.com]On Behalf Of joberhol@compures.com
Sent: Tuesday, June 22, 1999 8:56 AM
To: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
Subject: Re: Notes and Virus Scanning


We are not actively running any antivirus software at this time, but we do
have requests from multiple customers for that product.  I am under the
impression that Symantec (Norton) is working on a version for the Domino
server.  As of this time, I still do not know of a release date.  We are
trying to get on top of the situation with Symantec, IBM and Lotus, but so
far, no luck.

Dave Guerrero
Senior Consultant/Lotus Notes
Computech Resources, Inc.





Kelley Shaddrick <kshaddri@isd.net> on 06/21/99 09:07:45 PM

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 Subject: Notes and Virus Scanning









Do any of you users of Lotus Notes running native on the AS/400 run any
kind of virus scanning software against the Notes databases? If so, what do
you use? If not, how did you argue against it (if it was requested by
someone else)?
We run Notes 5.0 and were using a product that ended up bringing the server
down a number of times per day. We also run virus software on each desktop,
so some argue against running anything on the server.
Your thoughts???
Kelley Shaddrick
Operations and Technical Support Manager
Regis Corporation


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