Re: [Declude.Virus] Second Scanner

[Matt]

McAfee isn't a CPU hog, it's just that F-Prot is miles ahead of any other command line scanner in terms of performance.  The only thing that touches the performance of F-Prot is running ClamAV in daemon mode, but it's understandable that running a virus scanner as a service would be more efficient.  Running ClamAV as a command line/launched scanner will net even worse results than McAfee. In my testing I found that McAfee was actually the third fastest option behind F-Prot and ClamAV in daemon mode.  All of the other scanners that I tested were slower and required more CPU.  McAfee is also generally much more reliable than F-Prot and ClamAV, and in my experience it is also more reliable than AVG, but I can't speak for the others.  The only strike against ClamAV in my book is that it isn't operated by a large corporation and likely lacks the same degree of testing prior to launching new definitions as has been evidenced a couple of times, and of course it was developed originally for Linux. Matt Douglas Cohn wrote: Mcafee is a CPU HOG. Uses double the CPU of Fprot. I have a low powered machine and cannot even run Mcafee but fprot is no problem. Both is unreal. This is the mcafee command line scanner. The declude archive includes a Wget updater that works fine. I use a 4NT update script but the Wget is probably better I have just been too lazy to change it back. Of course you will not that the Website clearly states you are required to have a license to mcafee before you use this code which is readily available to all. You can also download the daily dats which are considered BETA quality but that's fine with me. Unluckily I do not use the with declude because smartermail and mcafee are just more than the measly server I have this one can handle. Luckily Smartermail and fprot are working just fine with declude and I have nothing to complain about (ESPECIALLY SINCE I GOT RID OF THAT IMAIL --- Blech). Here is a mcafee command line scanner. ftp://ftp.nai.com/CommonUpdater/ Download the latest superdat (sdatxxxx.exe) file from the Network Associates ftp site. Now you must unpack it using the "/e" parameter. From the mcafee folder, run sdatxxxx.exe /e (where xxxx is the version number, for example sdat4290.exe). When unpacking you don't see anything happen for about 20 seconds, just wait for it. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Scott Fisher Sent: Thursday, June 02, 2005 6:12 PM To: Declude.Virus@declude.com Subject: Re: [Declude.Virus] Second Scanner Matt posted speed comparison's I'd say about a year ago. I use F-Prot ClamAV and McAfee ----- Original Message ----- From: "David Sullivan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <Declude.Virus@declude.com> Sent: Thursday, June 02, 2005 4:50 PM Subject: [Declude.Virus] Second Scanner I know this comes up every now and then, but the last thread I can find is from May 2004. I was interested in what folks were using as a second scanner aside from F-Prot. I've heard AVG is good but slow, Kaspersky fast with updates but expensive, MacAfee good but hard to get a command line. I thought someone had posted some stats about this but can't find them. Any suggestions? -- Best regards, David mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] --- 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". The archives can be found at http://www.mail-archive.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". The archives can be found at http://www.mail-archive.com. --- [This E-mail scanned for viruses by Declude Virus] --- [This E-mail scanned for viruses by Declude Virus] --- 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". The archives can be found at http://www.mail-archive.com. -- ===================================================== MailPure custom filters for Declude JunkMail Pro. http://www.mailpure.com/software/ =====================================================