[Mimedefang] Re: Anti-virus software

[Kenneth Porter]

--On Wednesday, March 02, 2005 11:26 AM -0600 Ian Mitchell 
<trash at aftermagic.com> wrote:

> Law #8 - An out of date virus scanner is only marginally better than no
> virus scanner at all
> http://www.microsoft.com/technet/archive/community/columns/security/essay
> s/10imlaws.mspx

Just to be contrary ;) I'll say that it depends on your objective: Viruses 
tend to "stay in the system" a long time and if you've got savvy users who 
already know to use a good MUA and who don't blindly click on things, then 
the benefit of AV at the mail gateway is to reduce the load of looking at 
the stuff. It's essentially the same benefit you get from a spam scanner.

Alas, most of us suffer clueless users and PHB's insisting on vulnerable 
clients (mostly made by guess-who) so MS' point is well-taken.