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Hi Mr. Micke: What is your opinion on the differences in Corporate Edition and Antivirus 2003 with the Universities current configuration, whereby pilot allows users to download viruses in email attachments? Because e-mail is one of the most common routes of transmission of virus' do you think that it would be a good idea to have a SMTP virus filter on pilot? Lee Duynslager Michigan State University Center for Integrated Plant Systems Information Tech. Professional (517)432-5296 -----Original Message----- From: MSU Network Administrators Group [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Micke, Mel Sent: Thursday, November 07, 2002 11:50 AM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Re: Antivirus Questions... Spam ect. The Corporate version of Norton Antivirus was purchased in the early part of December last year. For most users the license ran for one year starting January 1. A few people who had just purchased the product managed to buy upgrades instead. Anyway, most copies expire on Jan 1 of 2003. If Symantec offers a similar deal again this year now would be the time to tell the computer store if you want them to pursue the purchase of another year of SAV or instead the Norton Internet Security package. Purchasing NAV for the entire student body last year factored into the purchase price we were offered. I don't know if we will be doing it again. This was a block prepurchase and resell for the staff copies. Letting them know your interest may allow them to get back to you so they can ask what quantities to purchase. - Mel _______________________________________________________________ Mel Micke [log in to unmask] 517/ 35 5-4500 x110 Michigan State University Text2pager-WebForm--> http://netinfo.msu.edu/page MSU Computer Laboratory Group leader - Network Information & Support Srvcs 301 Computer Center, East Lansing MI 48824-1042 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ --------------- -----Original Message----- From: Lee Duynslager [mailto:[log in to unmask]] Sent: Thursday, November 07, 2002 10:54 AM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Antivirus Questions... Spam ect. Hello Everyone: I am interested in getting information on Antivirus Software, that offers the most protection at a reasonable price. We run a wide variety of e-mail clients, and because there is no antivirus filtering on the SMTP pilot server, we encounter a lot of infected e-mail attachments. Additionally some of my users get 25-50 spam messages a day. It does not appear as if there is any filtering going on at the SMTP server for virus' or for spam, so what is one to do? The university is offering Corporate Edition which is basically a Local file system AV system, on the other hand AV 2002 and AV 2003 scan incoming emails for most POP3 mail clients. (NIS) Norton Internet Security 2002, and 2003 offer AV 2002 and 2003 respectively, Might this be worthwhile to purchase this to get the AV protection, and the Personal firewall, and spam alert with NIS 2003 or is this over doing it? Appreciate it, Lee Duynslager Michigan State University Center for Integrated Plant Systems Information Tech. Professional (517)432-5296