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Reject Malware during SMTP transaction

What are the advantages and disadvantages of having this checked under SMTP Antivirus?

We seem to have gotten quite a bit of trojan's through email as of this past week.


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  • Hi,

    advantage:
    not having to have the malware in your quarantine, etc.

    disadvantage:
    possibly rejecting legitimate mail due to potential false positives

    If the trojans you mention aren't getting quarantined then I don't think this setting will make a difference.
    Are you doing dual A/V scan?

    Barry
  • What are the advantages and disadvantages of having this checked under SMTP Antivirus?

    We seem to have gotten quite a bit of trojan's through email as of this past week.


    I have never seen a false positive on smtp scanning.  If there is something with malware in or attached to it the e-mail is simply rejected your network never sees it..[[:)]]  If you have the ram use dual scanning as well..[[:)]]

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