Mowergun
join:2004-02-15
Charleston, IL
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| Does your ISP have virus scanning at the server? I wanted to post a poll, but I do not see a way to do that. Maybe posting a poll is a premium option?
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. | |
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ctrip
Islam is a Religion of Peace
Premium
join:2002-07-16
New Cumberland, PA
·EarthLink
| Re: Does your ISP have virus scanning at the serve 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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Kayrac
Premium
join:2001-09-29
Rochester, NH | Re: Does your ISP have virus scanning at the serve how do you tell if they do?, i got comcast, do they? :P | |
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SnowyOne
Premium
join:2003-04-05
Kailua, HI
 ·RoadRunner Cable
 ·Clearwire Wireless
| Re: Does your ISP have virus scanning at the server? My ISP (RoadRunner) scans with Symantec.
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" | |
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no__1__here
Premium
join:2003-10-13
Tomball, TX | Yes, my hosting provider uses ClamAV. | |
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Kilroy
Premium,MVM
join:2002-11-21
Ann Arbor, MI
·WOW Internet and C..
| 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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Rudy1
@co.u | Re: Does your ISP have virus scanning at the serve Does GMail really have AV scanning? If so, GMail seem shy at including this in their information blurb. | |
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ISDNISP
join:2005-06-01
Bernie, MO | 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 | |
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| JTY
join:2004-05-29
Ellensburg, WA | Re: Does your ISP have virus scanning at the serve ISDNISP,
Postini kicks butt. They are very good.  | |
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spy1
Welcome to Amerika
Premium
join:2002-06-24
Charlotte, NC
| I have Comporium Internet service here and they use Postini (McAfee-based).
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 | |
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Inernetjunky
join:2003-11-07
USA | I have Comcast, and I believe they use Brightmail by NAV. I think that's the name. | |
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MrBradTX
join:2001-05-23
Carrollton, TX
·RoadRunner Cable
| Re: Does your ISP have virus scanning at the serve said by Inernetjunky  :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). | |
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join:2003-11-07
USA
| Re: Does your ISP have virus scanning at the serve said by MrBradTX :said by Inernetjunky :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. | |
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falcon04
join:2005-03-03 | RoadRunner - Yes. Haven't seen one get thru since they instituted their AV. | |
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JamPony9
Premium
join:2004-12-08
Austin, TX | 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. | |
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Dr Tweak
join:2004-09-23
Chesapeake, VA | Yes, Cox does, they use McAfee which misses quite a few that KAV catches.
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norwegian
Premium
join:2005-02-15
Outback | yes AV and spam detection, c/- sophos | |
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| jeff3120
Premium
join:2001-09-02
Chicago, IL
clubs:
·AT&T Midwest
| Re: Does your ISP have virus scanning at the serve said by MagMan :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. | |
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caffeinator
Coming soon to a cup near you..
Premium
join:2005-01-16
Spokane, WA
·WebBand
| My local ISP uses Vircom ModusMail, but I don't use that email account. Mainly I use my own POP accounts through my webhost that has Clam AV, SpamAssassin, and Boxtrapper.
Vircom does have some nice products though IMO.
»www.vircom.com
-CaFF
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| bigc73542
join:2004-02-07
Frederick, OK | Re: Does your ISP have virus scanning at the serve I use CableOne here in Oklahoma and they definatly have very good virus and mail scanning.
bigc | |
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KyeU
join:2003-12-31
Canada
| 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 -_-) | |
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Indy Sabre
Sabre Rider From Indianapolis
join:2003-10-02 | I have insightbb.com and I don't think they have any scanning. | |
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heels_fan
1.20.09 The start of Socialism
Premium
join:2003-02-07
Columbia, TN | The ISP that I work for does scan at the server level | |
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keith2468
Premium,MVM
join:2001-02-03
Winnipeg, MB
| My ISP, MTS.NET scans email for viruses and spam.
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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