MailScanner on Exchange

[David Nalley]

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hermit921 wrote:
> My company decided to move to Exchange for its main mail server "It's 
> a Management decision".  The two people hired to manage Exchange claim 
> there are products that run on the Exchange server that do everything 
> MailScanner (and associated programs) can do.  I don't believe it.  
> Could I be wrong, or even mostly wrong, about this?
>
> hermit921
Are there other products that scan for spam, viruses and other 
undesirable content, sure. Symantec, Kapersky, BitDefender, RAV. and CA 
are just a few of the solutions out there. There are a number of big 
advantages: 1)Multiple virus scanners - providing defense in depths as 
deep as you are willing to specify 2.) Heterogenous environment. - 
Security wise it requires a different set of knowledge to compromise an 
Exchange box as opposed to a Linux box running mailscanner. Those are 
the ones that immediately come to mind. I suppose that licensing costs 
could also be a factor, but really for any  organization large enough to 
need two Exchange admins, my guess is cost isn't that big of  a factor.

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