The viruses with no apparent payload, such as damage to system files, formatting of HD, etc, are sometimes underestimated. The VBS viruses and other trojans which propogate themselves thru email can quickly overwhelm email servers.

I know with Novell, if our email database grows too large, it will fill the HD and the whole server will crash! Then the only way to clean it up is from the text-based console (yuck!)

With the tools available, there is no excuse for virus infection, and certainly no excuse for data loss. TAPE BACKUP NIGHTLY! No excuses! If you can't backup your entire server during the night, then get more tape backup drives until you do! Tape drives are dirt cheap compared to the cost of starting over from scratch!

You need both Antivirus protection and nightly backups or you're toast!

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Tech: "You need to pack up your entire computer and bring it back in to us."
Customer: "Why?"
Tech: "BECAUSE YOU'RE TOO STUPID TO OWN A COMPUTER!"

[This message has been edited by MacGyver (edited March 15, 2001).]