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1000's of VAPxxx.tmp viruses in Quarantine

the past few days my exchange 2003 server is being flooded with some type of virus. the antivirus software in quarantining the virus of type VAPxxx.tmp. i am using symantic antivirus corp edition and symatic mail security for exchange. the problem is slow exchange server and taking up disk storage. i have had this problem in the past and it finnally cleared up. any ideas?

thanks,

charliebry

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quell23

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Consider putting in another system between your Exchange Server and the Internet such as:

www.ironport.com
www.ironmail.com

Better still consider using one of the following

www.messagelabs.com
www.postini.com
www.frontbridge.com

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charliebry

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I changed the NAV realtime protection to exclude NAV, Exchange and quarantine directories and that did solve the problem of filling up the quarantine file and disk storage. By excluding these directories (mail boxes etc.) I assume the server is still protected. I also found the site causing the problem "inet@microsoft.com" and blocked it.

Thanks,

Charliebry

TomBoland

Mail Security and the NAV corporate edition are related but separate. You are still protected for email viruses as long as Mail Security is running, configured properly, and updates on schedule.

Here is the link from Symantec on what to included and exclude with NAV Corp Edition 9 and Mail Security on the same box:
http://service1.symantec.com/SUPPORT/ent-security.nsf/docid/2004052416452048?Open&src=ent_tutweb_nam&docid=2004062508305148&nsf=ent-security.nsf&view=docid&dtype=corp&prod=&ver=&osv=&osv_lvl=

Tom