Hi Scott
Is your comment below about Mcafee Netshield or Virusscan ?
Or both product use the same scanner & options ?
Thanks
----- Original Message -----
From: "R. Scott Perry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, August 30, 2001 5:14 PM
Subject: Re: [Declude.Virus] [Declude.JunkMail] mcafee vs fprot... re speed,
cpu?
>
> >We are currently using fprot and are considering switching to mcafee
> >netsheild to improve proformance on our server.
> >
> >If I understand correctly, the /NODDA (or is it the /SILENT?) will
improve
> >the speed of mcafee to where it is much faster than fprot.
>
> In our tests, using standard settings, McAfee and F-Prot had similar
speeds
> (I believe that F-Prot was slightly faster). However, when McAfee had the
> /NODDA *and* /SILENT options added, it became significantly faster (about
> 2-3 times faster).
>
> One warning, though, is that McAfee has troubles with simultaneous
scanning
> (where two processes are started very closely to each other), and will
> often report an error when this happens. In this case, Declude will
> attempt to re-scan the files several more times, which typically fixes the
> problem. Because of the extra scanning, it's possible that McAfee could
> end up being slower. You can use "MAXATONCE 1" in the
> \IMail\Declude\virus.cfg file, which will instruct Declude to limit the
> number of scanner processes to 1 at a time. This would eliminate the
> problem, but would prevent several files from being scanned at the same
time.
> -Scott
>
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