ca.inoculateit.nt.txt

`Date: Wed, 12 May 1999 09:52:59 -0500  
From: Bob Duffett <[email protected]>  
To: [email protected]  
Subject: InoculateIT 4.53 Real-Time Exchange Scanner Flawed  
  
Manufacturer: Computer Associates  
Product: InoculateIT for Windows NT v4.53 Build 169, Agent for  
Microsoft Exchange  
  
This product has a major defect.  
We have it running on our Exchange Server  
with 1,300 mailboxes yet viruses keep spreading directly from email. I  
did some investigating tonight and found the problem.  
  
It is ONLY scanning the Inbox folder tree. This would sound simply like  
a poor design but it is MUCH worse.  
  
The Inbox Rules Wizard can store the user's rules on the Exchange Server  
which will move a message to a specific folder without the message ever  
being placed in a user's inbox. This causes it to comletely by-pass the  
InoculateIT Real-Time Scanner.  
  
My CA rep confirmed the problem with CA support who had no work-around  
available at this time.  
  
Bob  
  
University of Alabama at Birmingham  
Cancer Center Technical Services Facility (CCTSF)  
mailto:[email protected]  
  
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