MailScanner/ f-prot not catching all viruses

Simon Dick simon at ADVANTAGE-INTERACTIVE.COM
Thu Mar 13 13:47:15 GMT 2003


On Thu, 2003-03-13 at 13:37, Jan-Peter Koopmann wrote:
> > I had some Yaha viruses get through recently, but it turned
> > out that they actually bypassed our mx records and went
> > direct to the server which handles the mail after being
> > scanned, my assumption is that that was our old mx record
> > before using mailscanner so it may have a very old cached
> > copy somehow.
>
> You have a server out there accepting mail without some sort of
> protection in front of it? You are relying on MX records only? What
> about port scans on your network and finding the machine? Would be quite
> easy to do. If I were you I would think about this setup really quick...
> :-) Otherwise you might as well get rid of MailScanner in the first
> place *g*

Long story, I should really check that, but the current exim config is
"interesting" and not trivial to change like that until I have enough
time :)

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Simon Dick                      simon at advantage-interactive.com



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