Re: Sybari or Trendmicro?

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From: Ron (jfkfjdsarewureow_at_ruioewuroiewvkjhdkghdska.com)
Date: 12/09/04 

Date: Thu, 9 Dec 2004 15:29:42 -0800

Whooaaa... I didn't expect to see so many different responses :-)

I don't know about Symantec Mail Security for Exchange. Symantec AV for SMTP
gateway is a decent product, easy to configure and maintain. It cuts down
the spam volume by 90-95%. However, it lacks of several features that I'm
looking for such as the following:

- quarantine all mail with (dangerous) attachment (exe, com, bat, vbs...)
- better spam detection engine (= less false positives)

Symantec's heuristic spam detection is completely useless. It detects
OUTgoing messages and drops our business related email (isn't that
grrrreat?). I turned off heuristic engine detection recently because of
excessive false positives.

Another reason why I'm looking for a different product is because we're
already using Symantec AV product to protect our Exchange server, file
servers and desktops. The SMTP gateway and servers/desktops antivirus pretty
much use the same virus definitions (from Symantec). If the SMTP gateway
fails to recognize a virus, it's highly likely the servers/desktops virus
protection will fail to recognize it too. That's why I want to use a
different product at the SMTP gateway.

"Boris Lokhvitsky" <msexpert@community.nospam> wrote in message
news:eDTOIrj3EHA.2156@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...
> Good question and good discussion. I am about to face the similar problem,
> so I'm interested in real opinions too (no marketing crap please).
>
> What about GFi Mail Essentials + Mail Security? Did you consider it?
>
> What is bad about Symantec MailSecurity for Exchange?
>
> How do you plan to protect the back-end server? (from viruses brought by
> internal MAPI users)?
>
> Regards,
> Boris
>
>
> "Ron" <jfkfjdsarewureow@ruioewuroiewvkjhdkghdska.com> wrote in message
> news:OTsixzi3EHA.1408@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...
> > I'm currently using Symantec Antivirus for SMTP gateway server (it is an
> > SMTP server and it acts as an SMTP relay server for Exchange in the
> internal
> > network). It does the following:
> >
> > - Spam filter
> > - Sender's address block, subject line block, attachments block
> > - Query 3 RBLs (at most)
> > - Heuristic Detection (not useful - too many false positives)
> > - Virus scanning
> > and others
> >
> > I'm looking for an antivirus + antispam gateway software solution from
> other
> > companies. It can be an SMTP server itself or an add-on to MS SMTP
server
> > (runs on top of MS SMTP). I've narrowed it down to 2 software companies
> but
> > unsure which one is better. Sybari or Trendmicro? Which product should I
> > get? I'm currently reading Antigen for SMTP gateways manuals.
> >
>
http://www.sybari.ws/portal/alias__Rainbow/lang__en-US/tabID__3344/DesktopDefault.aspx
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
> >
>
>

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