Can MailMarshal clean viruses?

This article applies to:

• Trustwave MailMarshal (SEG)
• Trustwave ECM/MailMarshal Exchange

Question:

Reply:

MailMarshal itself is not actually a virus scanner - it can perform virus scanning by invoking third party virus scanners.

• MailMarshal releases 8.1 and below supported the "cleaning" functionality of some scanners.
• This convenience functionality of the scanners is generally obsolete and unsafe in the current threat environment. It has been removed in MailMarshal/SEG release 8.2 and above.

Note: To protect your network from infection (and to guard against liability in the case of outbound viruses), MailMarshal versions that allow "cleaning" always perform an additional virus scan after cleaning.

This article was previously published as:

NETIQKB29683