RE: Virus Scanning

["Ferguson, Linwood" <Ferguson () CHASLEVY com>]

Can you confirm that?

I bought the "Small Business Bundle" from NAI, which included Gauntlet.

We do use Netshield and Virusscan, but I was not aware that Websheild
was included.  Also, as best I can tell on the NT version it is not "in"
the firewall, but requires a separate server to run (or at least
recommends one, I am not sure if it is a technical requirement or not).

But the only such CVP scanner mentioned in the documentation for
Gauntlet NT was the Norton one, ironically enough.  So it was not clear
to me whether Gauntlet worked with or recommended NAI's sister product.
Partially this was a result of the ABSOLUTELY AWFUL documentation that
came with the Small Business Bundle.  I received about 30 CD's, and
nothing anywhere to tell me what products I was licensed for, what I was
not, how they fit together, etc.  Each product had some documentation of
its own (e.g. Gauntlet) but absolutely nothing to make this "bundle"
anything but a big pile of CD's.  There's even a strong indication in
subsequent reading I have done that much of the software sent to me is
not even supposed to be part of the Small Business Bundle, but who can
tell.

Anyway... if Webshield is part of Gauntlet, I'd sure like to know it.

Linwood

PS. My "salesman" changed jobs literally the day after he got my PO, so
don't say 'call your salesman'.  Other attempts to straighten out these
issues, e.g. the term of the maintenance, including in writing, have met
with dead silence.




 -----Original Message-----
From:   Mellon, Ty [mailto:Ty_Mellon () NAI com] 
Sent:   Monday, June 21, 1999 9:17 AM
To:     'Joe Pung'; Sloan, Scott; firewall-wizards () nfr net; David Bovee
Subject:        RE: Virus Scanning

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Gauntlet includes McAfee Web Scan in the Firewall. (Remember the
question about letting ActiveX content in?  Don't decide whether or
not ALL ActiveX content should be let in or out --- SCAN IT ON THE WAY
IN!!) This is single vendor protection, not "a third party plug in". 
This is NOT a plug, simply fact  I would like to understand what the
perspective is from the forum regarding this solution as well as
others.    BTW, I completely agree with others in the group that a
firewall is extremely important for perimeter defense, but if you are
worried about packet filtering not being overly trustworthy, why not
use stateful inspection AND packet filtering for the appropriate mix
of security and speed?
Comments?
T-


Ty Mellon
    Account Manager - Active Security, Network Associates, Inc.
* Voice: (800)338-8754x7918     * Fax:  (972)855-2664
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Gauntlet Firewall - Virtual Private Networks(VPN) - PGP (encryption) -
CyberCop Scanner (Vulnerability & Risk Assessment) - CyberCop Monitor
(Real-time Intrusion Detection)      
Who's Watching Your Network?


- -----Original Message-----
From:   Joe Pung [SMTP:PUNGJOS () aquinas edu]
Sent:   Thursday, June 17, 1999 7:41 AM
To:     Sloan, Scott; firewall-wizards () nfr net; David Bovee
Subject:        RE: Virus Scanning

> > Does anyone know how Raptor handles virus scanning?  They
> > recommend Finjan's
> > Surfin gate, but that only handles java.
They also recommend using MIMEsweeper 
(http://www.mimesweeper.com/) by Content Technologies).  

Joe



> > Sincerely,
> > Scott W. Sloan


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