RE: GroupWise vs Exchange

From: Jeff Faust <JFaust(at)gramtel.net>
Date: Mon Mar 24 2003 - 15:51:28 EST

I cant point you to a website or any studies, but I have been administrating 3 different exchange servers for 3 different divisions of our company for about a year or so now. I would have to say the last big virus that hit any one of our boxes was the nimda virus. But the one we get the most is the Klez virus.

BUT (this is the important part) Norton has a anti-virus for exchange servers! So if your users don't have any anti-virus on their workstations you don't need to worry about them getting virus' thru email (only problem with that is, if they have other pop3 accounts setup in outlook).

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From: Judd Cook [mailto:JuddC@questar.com] Sent: Monday, March 24, 2003 3:23 PM
To: Focus-virus@securityfocus.com
Subject: GroupWise vs Exchange

We are a Novell shop and use GroupWise for e-mail. We are considering moving to Exchange. Obviously, virus outbreaks will be more prevalent with Exchange but I was wondering if anyone has (or knows where I could find) hard numbers relating to this. For instance, a case study of a shop that has made this change and costs associated with outbreaks went up by X amount. Or GroupWise shops average X amount of outbreaks a year while Exchange users average X, and at this cost. If anyone can help me with this I would appreciate it.

Thanks
Judd Cook
Info Security Admin
Questar Gas Corp
SLC, Utah 84145

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