Thanks, I think we'll go with Trend and McAfee in addition to F-Prot. We're going to reveiw the license but I think we'd have a pretty good argument that it would be impossible to license for every email address and...we need at least on "consumer" A/V name for our customers to see.
Thanks David ----- Original Message ----- From: "R. Scott Perry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, January 17, 2002 1:36 PM Subject: Re: [Declude.Virus] Mulitple A/V Scanners > > > > Trend's PCScan.exe works well. The only problem is that the output is not > > > easily parsed, so Declude's REPORT directive doesn't work(unless there has > > > been an update I'm unaware of). > > > >Anybody know?? > > No, I believe that pcscan still has the filename/virusname backwards, so > Declude won't be able to pick them up. > > > > The question would be if Declude > > > takes the virus name info from the first or last scanner to report and > > > infection, then place F-Prot in that position. > > > >Again, anybody?? > > It takes it from the last scanner that Declude is able to get a virus name > from. > > > > McAfee works well, but I'm still not 100% comfortable with the license. > >NOD32 > > > and Kaspersky both have clean "server" based licenses without per-user > > > encumbrances , but run a little more $. > > > >I heard some rumbling about this concerning whether you needed 1 license or > >1 license per email box (cmpletely out of the financial question). Can you > >elaborate on this issue? > > From the McAfee licenses we've seen, our interpretation is that you either > need 1 license, or an infinite number of licenses. From our reading of it, > it is definitely NOT based per mailbox. > > The catch is basically that the alternate interpretation of their license > would require one license for every E-mail address that could conceivably > connect to the server. Unless IMail or Declude only allowed E-mail from > pre-allowed E-mail addresses, you would literally need millions and > millions of licenses. > > I just took a look at the McAfee license for 3 different products of > theirs, and the license was the same for all, and in all 3 licenses, it was > missing sections 1a and 1b, where it seems that the most useful information > was. So you really would need a lawyer to determine the effect of the > license, given that it's very clear that all of their licenses are missing > key pieces. I have seen the full license, but can't seem to find a copy here. > -Scott > > --- > [This E-mail was scanned for viruses by Declude Virus (http://www.declude.com)] > > This E-mail came from the Declude.Virus mailing list. To > unsubscribe, just send an E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], and > type "unsubscribe Declude.Virus". You can E-mail > [EMAIL PROTECTED] for assistance. You can visit our web > site at http://www.declude.com . > --- [This E-mail was scanned for viruses by Declude Virus (http://www.declude.com)] This E-mail came from the Declude.Virus mailing list. To unsubscribe, just send an E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], and type "unsubscribe Declude.Virus". You can E-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] for assistance. You can visit our web site at http://www.declude.com .
