Question : Antivirus email protection on Symantec Endpoint Protection

I'm deploying some antivirus packages and had a couple questions. With Endpoint protection is it OK to disable the Antivirus email protection if you are ONLY using Exchange. Or i guess in other words is there any benefit of this feature for Exchange clients. I was under the impression that this only protects clients who have POP3 accounts or does a direct send to/from the workstation itself. Here is the deal anyway, I have a few clients that have some automated email reports using IIS and the SMTP feature on the workstation. The Symantec stuff messes with that and I was told to remove it. Rather than create yet another group of clients I was wondering if ALL clients could be without the POP SMTP email if they were using Exchange.

Answer : Antivirus email protection on Symantec Endpoint Protection

Does your Exchange Server have antivirus protection? If so, you don't need it on the clients who only use Exchange. Clients that retrieve emails from external POP servers are a different story. Having said that, I don't use the email protection at all - if there is a malicious attachment, the regular file protection will catch it when the attachment is saved or opened.