Anyone here can advise how typical AV license their product ?
It can depend on many factors. For example, if you read a McAfee license, you'll get a very different answer than you would get by talking to a McAfee sales rep (who probably get very high commissions, and spin things in their favor).
I mean, do I have to match the no. of users in iMail to the no. of users in the AV product I use ? (eg. 250 users in iMail = 250 users in AV)
I assume you're talking about a standard desktop virus scanner (the type used with Declude Virus), as opposed to a full mailserver virus scanner (which are almost always licensed by the user).
It depends on the product and their licensing, but the most commonly used virus scanners with Declude Virus have licenses that we believe only require one copy per server. However, licensing can be a tricky issue -- for example, a number of years ago the McAfee license was written in a way that could be interpreted that either you needed to buy 1 license, or 1 license for every Internet user (which would be millions of licenses, that nobody would be able to afford). So if you are concerned, either stick with a product with human readable licensing (such as F-Prot), or run the license by your legal department. Note that if the license interpretation is that you need 1 copy per simultaneous copy that may be running, Declude Virus lets you limit the number of simultaneous processes.
What are the technical implications if I don't ? Does that mean some virus won't be checked and gets through ?
I'm not aware of any AV products that have any of the licensing hard-coded so that it will stop working. But we do strongly recommend that our customers license their AV products appropriately.
-Scott
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