Re: [fw-wiz] Opinions on the security of antivirus software

From: bill earley (bearley@houston.rr.com)
Date: 07/06/02


From: bill earley <bearley@houston.rr.com>
To: firewall-wizards@honor.icsalabs.com
Date: Sat Jul  6 01:58:01 2002


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On Friday 05 July 2002 07:59 am, Mikael Olsson wrote:

> So: what are YOUR opinions on the (in)security of the antivirus
> packages out there?

F-Protect ( http://www.f-prot.com ) signs all their "packages" with PGP.

They are also one of the best "scan engines" I 've seen for Dos, Win, or *nix.

And since we run Linux at the "web-front" we get them in tarballs instead of
self-extracting executables.

Bill Earley

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