David & James:
I disagree with James but not for technical reasons. The choice of McAfee for me is typically decided by the "Cover Your A**" (CYA) Doctrine ;-).
Customers/Employees/Bosses who get a virus will demand that you make best efforts to get rid of viruses and unfortunately ClamAV hasn't gotten much trade press.
Therefore, using McAfee is using a brand name that has worldwide acceptance and is #2 in the US for Anti-viral software. Since I also recommend Symantec's Corporate Edition for Servers/Desktops (#1 in the US), we are then using the #1 & #2 Commercial software and ClamAV (the best Open Source anti-viral software).
Over the past year, with the use of bad_filename and Archive::Zip testing, we haven't seen a single virus get farther than our first line of defense because most of them have seemed to exploit zip, exe's and pifs in the last year and the others have been variants that heuristically haven't been that hard to identify.
So, if the responsibility is ALL yours, I recommend MD with bad_filename (and the really_bad_filename extrapolation I wrote helps too) & ClamAV. It's free and very well done. If you have to answer to anyone, I suggest McAfee. It's the leading product available for most unix platforms and the product pricing is quite inexpensive.
Regards,
KAM
----- Original Message ----- From: "James Ebright" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, March 22, 2005 9:24 AM
Subject: Re: [Mimedefang] Which antivirus?
We have had zero isues with f-prot, it is well supported and not a resource
hog. Definitions come out pretty much the same time or before most people will
see it from Symantec (Norton AV), and since we check often from a cron job, we
ususually get the updates long before our customers.
http://www.f-prot.com/
Anyway, just our experience. Jim
On Tue, 22 Mar 2005 13:14:07 +0100, Administrador DyR wroteHi all.
At my firm we have a MIMEDefang installation with SA, ClamAV and McAfee uvscan.
The license of McAfee is about to expire. I trust almost completelly in clamav, but we want to use another aditional antivirus for contrast results.
Before upgrading McAfee/NAI license, after reading last-weeks messages about uvscan's bad documentation and/or reliability, I would like to know your opinions about the different commercial antivirus currently supported by MIMEDefang, thinking about new- virus reactness, signature upgrading, reliability, Linux support, and price...
Thank you for your opinions.
-- David Marin Carre�o <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Desarrollo y Recursos, S.L.
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