Email Virus Protection

New and Improved Anti-Virus Scanner

SMI is now scanning incoming and outgoing email for viruses using Vircom ModusMail. The anti-virus component of our mail server software is based on the Norman Data Defense engine. Infected mail is cleaned on our server and a message is sent to the sender and recipient warning them about the virus. The virus signatures are updated daily but SMI cannot guarantee the solution will be 100% effective. Customers should have virus protection installed on their own computers to protect themselves against infection from email and other potential virus sources.

Virus Removal

If you have received a message indicating you have a virus, Symantec Corporation has posted a set of virus removal tools for the most common viruses at www.symantec.com/avcenter/tools.list.html. If you receive an email indicating your computer as the sender of a message containing a virus, the message will contain a line similar to the one below:

Scan report:
    Virus 'W32/Sircam.A@mm' in
    ReferenceRequest[1].doc.lnk

In this case the reported virus is the Sircam worm. Choose the Sircam_worm tool and follow the instructions. You may also use an anti-virus package to remove most viruses.

Anti-Virus Software

There are several choices for anti-virus software:

Symantec
McAfee
F-Secure