General Antivirus Question - HELP

TygGer

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For a company that uses a MS Exchange mail server, do virus updates need to be made on the server itself? If not, where are the updated patches suppose to be downloaded?

Sorry for the vague question, just trying to understand how "it" works in a corporate environment.
 

ojai00

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The virus updates should be made on the server itself because all the incoming (and outgoing) mail is going through the Exchange server and then routed to the users. Hope this helps. :)
 

VicodiN

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The AV would most likely be on that server if the main threat is virus-by-email... Which would mean that signature updates would be made directly on that server.
 

TygGer

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Since I dont have access to the Exchange Server, do you do updates the same way you would locally on your PC?
 

ojai00

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You can do it that way, or have it automatically update the virus signatures.