For AV in a Domino environment, if you’ve got a 3rd party MTA at the gateway that basically provides anti-spam and AV for all incoming/outgoing mail is there a reason to run AV on internal Domino Messaging and Enterprise servers?
Subject: Any other areas compromised ?
That only sorts out a virus from the internet / via that gateway if it is a central routing hub.
I think the recommended option would be…
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run an operating system virus scanner, but don’t scan the domino files.
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run an active Domino level scanner on all routers
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run a scheduled Domino scan on 1 replica of each database every time a new virus pattern file is available.
Generally, something gives when you have performance issues and sometimes this is the virus scanner as its 3rd party to Domino.
We use 1 virus vendor at the SMTP Gateway and on PCs / Laptops, plus another vendor in Domino.
What about an operating system virus introduced by a non-email server on the network ?
Do you have an anti-virus product running on your Mobile devices to prevent intrusion ?
Are your Virus Scanner settings locked out to users, so they cannot disable them ?
Do your remote users work on machines that are not covered by a virus scanner and locked policy to prevent upload or replication from offline databases ?
What if a new Virus is not recognized at the gateway and you are not re-running the latest pattern file against the document now in an internal database being sent internally ?