To Declude newbies: After trying Sophos as the AV scanner with declude, I can say that it ran into some problems. The problem is that is locked up while trying to scan the eicar.com testing attachment. In fact, every time an attachment was encountered, virus free or not, it locked the process. Unfortunately it still allowed the message to be sent. It forced declude processes to build up on the imail server until the machine ran out of resources. The DEBUG really helped find this when Scott told me about changing LOW to DEBUG. This showed much more in the virus.log file, but should only be used for debugging as the log file grows very quickly. Editorial comment: Scott gives super support via [EMAIL PROTECTED] My conclusion was that f-prot was simple and worked. I will try the command line suggested by Gordon below for further testing. At this time, Declude w/f-prot seems to be a very good solution, considering performance and price. Thanks for all postings on this topic. John ---------- Original Message ---------------------------------- From: Gordon Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sun, 07 Jan 2001 11:04:32 -0500 > >To John and others who may be interested in installing >Declude Virus... > >Here is Declude SCANFILE-line info that several others >graciously shared with me as I was evaluating scanners: > >For McAfee's NetShield, which is VirusScan for servers ($60): > scan.exe /ALL /NOMEM /NOBEEP >(no path needed; under C:\Program Files\Common Files\...) >www.mcafeeb2b.com > >For F-Prot for DOS ($20): > C:\Progra~1\FSI\F-Prot\F-Prot.exe /TYPE /SILENT /NOMEM /AUTO >www.complex.is > >For Kaspersky AVP32 ($560): > C:\Progra~1\Kasper~1\Antivi~1\avp32.exe /S /Q /N /Y >www.avp.ch or www.kaspersky.com > >You should do your own review of scanner documentation, of >course, to be sure these switches meet your needs. But >these should certainly get you up'n'running while you >further assess the switches you may need. > >I hope this is helpful to others who want to install Declude. >It is a valuable addition to a single-box IMail system, and >Scott provides first-rate support. > > www.declude.com > >Gordon > >----- >John Pearson wrote: >> >> Terry, >> >> I too have purchased declude and I am testing various scanners. I have tried >Norton, and Sophos, and will now try f-prot. >> >> >I installed Scott Perry's ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.declude.com >> >Declude this morning along with Frisk's http://www.complex.is f-prot command >line >virus scanner. >> >> I noticed that f-prot says they only protect against 40K viruses. This seems low >compared to other companies quoting 58K at this time. Any thoughts? They also say >they only update the files every two months? Anyone see a problem with this? How easy >is it to update f-prot's def files? Can it be automated? >> > >> >I spent less than 30 minutes most of which was trying to figure out how >> >f-prot worked and how to set the command line arguments in the deculde virus cfg >file. Probably to actually install Declude itself is under 5 minutes. >> >> Can you post recommended switches for f-prot used in the virus.cfg file? >> > >> >Declude is a very nice product. >> > >> I agree. >> >> John > >Please visit http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html >to be removed from this list. > >An Archive of this list is available at: >http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ > -- "I work on problems I don't understand in hopes I will understand them next time." Mr. John E. Pearson Tri-Valley Technology Systems 503 E. Washington St. Downs, IL 61736 WEB: http://tri-valley.k12.il.us Phone: (309) 378-2911 X270 Fax: (309) 378-3202 -- Please visit http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html to be removed from this list. An Archive of this list is available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/
