Does your ISP have virus scanning at the server? in Security http://www.dslreports.com/forum/r13996026 en Mon, 30 Nov 2009 07:39:59 EDT Mon, 30 Nov 2009 07:39:59 EDT Re: Does your ISP have virus scanning at the serve http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,14009788 anon : Does GMail really have AV scanning? If so, GMail seem shy at including this in their information blurb.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,14009788 Fri, 29 Jul 2005 06:30:31 EDT Re: Does your ISP have virus scanning at the server? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,14009780 anon : Does GMail really have anti virus scanning? If so, GMail seem shy about stating so in their information!]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,14009780 Fri, 29 Jul 2005 06:26:40 EDT Re: Does your ISP have virus scanning at the serve http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,14008234 Mele20 : Too late to edit my post. I want to add that another RR member and I did some tests and RR now is scanning within the network also. That is good. I was going on tests I did some time ago and RR has since then added scanning within the network.

DSLR is not an ISP, but what is going on with mail scanning here? Used to you would get a notice and the mail would be stripped of the infected attachment and sent the recipient. But today I sent this RR member eicar from my dslr account and the member never received it. So, is dslr just destroying infected mail outbound and not letting the sender know?
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said by MrBradTX See Profile:

said by Inernetjunky See Profile:

I have Comcast, and I believe they use Brightmail by NAV. I think that's the name.
Isn't Brightmail an anti-Spam product, and not an AV? I have had virus-infected emails get to my Comcast Inbox (which my dersktop AV then made short work of).
I remember trying to send myself a test virus attachment and I got a notice saying that Brightmail stop it. This was last year some time. I haven't tried doing that lately. Maybe things have changed.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,14004130 Thu, 28 Jul 2005 14:09:20 EDT Re: Does your ISP have virus scanning at the server? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,14003460 jaykaykay : I have Speakeasy and I can't tell you how they do their filtering both for viruses and spam, but it has been very effective for both. If I have gotten a virus, I never see it. When the filtering first started, one would be notified that a virus had been stripped, and my only assumption is that I have either not gotten any or they have stopped notifying as I've had no notices of such in months and months. I do still get an occasional spam but very seldom does that reach my inbox either...maybe one or 2 at the most in months.
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Excellent (free) service, on my end, anyway.

Haven't had a single virus get through on my email since I got it (which doesn't leave my A/V a whole lot to do). Sends you a message like this when something gets blocked:

"Dear spy1@comporium.net,

Comporium Communications's Mail Filter service has detected a potential
e-mail virus. This suspicious message has been quarantined
in your Message Center:

From: administrator@comporium.net
Subject: YOUR NEW ACCOUNT PASSWORD IS APPROVED
Virus: Generic Malware.a!zip

To read, deliver, or delete the message without infecting
your computer, go to:

messagecenter.internettoolkit.net/(Blanked out by me)

Thank You!

Comporium Communications"

I consider it outstanding for what it does. Pete]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,14002390 Thu, 28 Jul 2005 10:37:14 EDT Re: Does your ISP have virus scanning at the serve http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,14001270 Mele20 : Road Runner scans at the national inbound and outbound mail GATEWAY servers not on the local level. If you send email to another RR user, be they in your franchise, or another RR franchise, the mail is NOT scanned either coming or going. It is only mail coming from outside the RR network or leaving the RR network for an outside destination that is scanned. The scanner is Symantec Corporate. I know a bit about how the scanning works for RR because two years ago the scanner kept letting Klez.e through (even when updated) and I spent considerable time with the person at National RR in Virginia who was in charge of the AV scanning program helping with this problem.
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You might ask why I choose to use an ISP that doesn't scan for viruses. Well, they are the only broadband provider available in my area so I am stuck with them, but that's OK because I scan for viruses locally.
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But I use a separate email service SPAMCOP.NET which provides more and more customizable spam filters.

Keep in mind that, so far as I know, ISPs that scan for viruses are only scanning email for viruses.

So you can still get viruses from web pages, downloads, P2P file sharing, vulnerable ports, and so on, unless you have up-to-date anti-virus and anti-spyware/anti-adware protection on your own machine.
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My customers with SBC/YAHOO receive virus/worm infected emails fairly regularly thorugh the SBC POP servers. Symantec SAV CE in the locations has caught all so far.
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Postini kicks butt. They are very good. :)]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,13999696 Wed, 27 Jul 2005 23:11:37 EDT Re: Does your ISP have virus scanning at the serve http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,13999692 Indy Sabre : I have insightbb.com and I don't think they have any scanning.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,13999692 Wed, 27 Jul 2005 23:11:28 EDT Re: Does your ISP have virus scanning at the serve http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,13999432 jeff3120 :
said by MagMan See Profile:

SBC does too I have had a lot of e-mails coming from people that I do not know infected with viruses and SBC stops them.
I use SBC and they don't scan POP3 e-mail. My resident AV has flagged several e-mail viruses in just the past few weeks. I do believe though that Yahoo scans the SBC web mail service with NAV. ]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,13999432 Wed, 27 Jul 2005 22:37:37 EDT Re: Does your ISP have virus scanning at the serve http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,13999045 KyeU : Using Rogers here. They seem to have a very good virus scanner. After they joined with Yahoo, a lot of spam has been tagged with "[Bulk]" in the subject! Very nice :) This is perhaps the only good thing about Rogers (other than the browsing speed). They now use Geocities as the customer's webspace provider, putting their Rogers email in the URL to their personal site, and are now using Giganews as their newsgroup provider. (With caps set at 30 kB/s...it takes almost 3 hours to get the headers for an average size group -_-)]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,13999045 Wed, 27 Jul 2005 21:54:56 EDT Re: Does your ISP have virus scanning at the serve http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,13998980 bigc73542 : I use CableOne here in Oklahoma and they definatly have very good virus and mail scanning.

bigc]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,13998980 Wed, 27 Jul 2005 21:47:24 EDT Re: Does your ISP have virus scanning at the serve http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,13998621 NetFixer : My primary ISP Covad uses F-Prot for server side email AV scanning.

My secondary ISP Comcast does not appear to do server side email AV scanning, but outsources the responsbility to the customer by offering the McAfee VirusScan program free to subscribers.
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Vircom does have some nice products though IMO.
»www.vircom.com

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said by Inernetjunky See Profile:

I have Comcast, and I believe they use Brightmail by NAV. I think that's the name.
Isn't Brightmail an anti-Spam product, and not an AV? I have had virus-infected emails get to my Comcast Inbox (which my dersktop AV then made short work of).]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,13997608 Wed, 27 Jul 2005 18:42:49 EDT Re: Does your ISP have virus scanning at the server? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,13997514 norwegian : yes AV and spam detection, c/- sophos]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,13997514 Wed, 27 Jul 2005 18:31:28 EDT Re: Does your ISP have virus scanning at the serve http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,13997312 Dr Tweak : Yes, Cox does, they use McAfee which misses quite a few that KAV catches.

:)]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,13997312 Wed, 27 Jul 2005 18:07:01 EDT Re: Does your ISP have virus scanning at the serve http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,13997019 JamPony9 : Roadrunner in Austin Texas does. This agrees with other RR posters above so it may be true of all the divisions.

Virii get replaced with text files saying the attachment was removed.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,13997019 Wed, 27 Jul 2005 17:30:28 EDT Re: Does your ISP have virus scanning at the server? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,13996945 falcon04 : RoadRunner - Yes. Haven't seen one get thru since they instituted their AV. ]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,13996945 Wed, 27 Jul 2005 17:22:40 EDT Re: Does your ISP have virus scanning at the server? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,13996901 Inernetjunky : I have Comcast, and I believe they use Brightmail by NAV. I think that's the name.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,13996901 Wed, 27 Jul 2005 17:17:42 EDT Re: Does your ISP have virus scanning at the server? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,13996644 ISDNISP : I own a small ISP, but growing pretty rapidly.

I am thinking about investing in Postini (scans for email/virus at the server level), does anyone here have access to it, and if you do, do you like it and use it?

Thanks]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,13996644 Wed, 27 Jul 2005 16:49:56 EDT Re: Does your ISP have virus scanning at the serve http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,13996469 Kilroy : I use Yahoo Mail and GMail. Both have AV scanning and will show you the original e-mail they won't allow you to download with their tools, but you could POP it out. I also have Wide Open West (WOW) but don't use the e-mail accounts.
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Here's what the results look like

"ALERT!!!
This e-mail in its original form contained one or more attached files that were infected with a virus or worm, or contained another type of security threat.

The following attachments were infected and have been repaired:
No attachments are in this category.

The following attachments were deleted due to an inability to clean them:
1. bill.zip: W32.Netsky.P@mm

The Following attachments were not delivered due to inbound mail policy violations:
No attachments are in this category.

Road Runner does not contact the sender of the infected attachment(s) in the event that they were not actually sent from the indicated party.

Please contact the sender directly to alert them of their issue with infected files if you wish to do so.

For more information on Road Runner's virus filtering initiative, visit our Help & Member Service"]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,13996230 Wed, 27 Jul 2005 16:07:32 EDT Re: Does your ISP have virus scanning at the serve http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,13996205 Kayrac : how do you tell if they do?, i got comcast, do they? :P]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,13996205 Wed, 27 Jul 2005 16:04:15 EDT Re: Does your ISP have virus scanning at the serve http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,13996138 ctrip : Earthlink does virus scanning at the server level and strips any viruses before it gets to me. Very effective. I haven't gotten a virus through email yet.
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Anyway my question, what I am curious about, is now many people's ISP's have virus scanning on their email servers?
If so, is virus scanning at the server level common in your area?
If your ISP has virus scanning at the server, did that effectively stop incoming virus attachments in your experience?

In my case, my ISP as well as all of the ISP's in my area started virus scanning at the server level about two or three years ago. Before then, I could usually count on getting ten or twenty infected emails within the first few days after each new mass mailing worm virus emerged. Fortunately my antivirus program, NAV, always caught them. I haven't received a virus infected email since my ISP started the virus scanning. I rarely even receive notice of a stripped infected attachment any more.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,13996026 Wed, 27 Jul 2005 15:44:57 EDT