Re: Chosing the right Anti Virus...

From: Edoardo Costa (edoardocosta@yahoo.com)
Date: 12/30/01 

From: edoardocosta@yahoo.com (Edoardo Costa)
Date: 30 Dec 2001 05:27:45 -0800

Hi Yan,
Am I right in thinking that there are some free scanners like "sophie"
that use the dat files from a non free anti virus program?

Have you ever tried sophie with qmail-scanner?

Any clues?
Ed.

"Yan Seiner" <yan@oberon.cardinal.lan> wrote in message news:<20011229.202647.1278625363.19574@oberon.cardinal.lan>...
> While there are some attempts at free virus scanners, keep in mind that
> keeping the web site up, the datafiles up-to-date, and the research to
> keep track of the viruses, and the bandwith for all those downloading, is
> EXPENSIVE. No freebie is going to be able to meet those goals.
>
> I use amavis+f-secure for an email virus scanner. It's cheap ($100 for
> the f-secure license; amavis is free) and the updates seem to go on
> forever.
>
> I have not found anyone offering a reasonably priced html scanner - those
> get pricy.
>
> f-secure for linux is sold as a single user/machine license. It scans files. So
> the single user is root, and it scans both email (via amavis) and the
> disk (via cron).
>
> Works like a charm, too.
>
> Just my $0.02 - I strongly support GPL stuff, but there are times when
> you must pay for support/performance.
>
> --Yan

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