Your feedback was much appreciated and will definitely be using this example to build my case.
Regard, Robin On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 4:27 PM, Scott Mohnkern <[email protected]> wrote: > In our particular environment (a government server farm), we were asked to > deploy the Mcafee virus scanning tools for Linux. After several months of > frustration, we concluded given our particular configuration (A very large > Storage Area Network) that McAfee would never meet our needs. > > We tested and deployed clamav across 63 machines with over 24 terabytes of > network storage and have found that it fits our needs extremely well. We > don't do "on the fly" scanning, but do scanning on a cycling basis per > machine, to avoid overtaxing our network. > > > Scott Mohnkern > > > > On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 3:17 PM, Robin <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hello! >> >> I am administering 7 Debian based LAMP servers and am working to get >> anti-virus to scan uploads as they happen. Since I am a lone sheep in >> the Microsoft wild of a larger organization I need to prove that Clam >> is up for the task and at least at par with commercial A/V such as >> McAfee Commandline Scanner. >> >> I have found a few articles stating that Clam is in some cases >> superior to most of the commercial counterparts. >> >> I am looking for feedback and thoughts on this so I can bring my case >> to the powers that we do not need to dish out $$ to provide virus >> protection. >> >> Thanks! >> >> -- >> Robin >> _______________________________________________ >> Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: visit http://wiki.clamav.net >> http://www.clamav.net/support/ml >> > _______________________________________________ > Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: visit http://wiki.clamav.net > http://www.clamav.net/support/ml > -- Robin [email protected] _______________________________________________ Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: visit http://wiki.clamav.net http://www.clamav.net/support/ml
