On Thu, Mar 24, 2005 at 09:30:55AM -0800, Rick Shepherd wrote: > I was recently reading CRN and found an article on Astaro which is apparently > a > Linux based spam/virus/intrusion appliance but also available in ISO format > for > installation on most distros. Have any of you ever heard of/used this > software? I know there are a dozen different ways in Linux to do what they > are > proposing but when it comes to anti-virus especially I really appreciate a > licensed product so I can get support if/when I need it.
WatchGuard was working on adding anti-virus stuff when I quit several months ago. I don't know how far along they got. as far as I know they were only plugging it into their SMTP proxy. A lot could have changed since then. They seem to get awards for their customer support. you might want to look into them. One reason I don't often use proprietary software is I find the support is much better from the open source community. This is only my experience though. I could be the kind of software I tend to use is better supported its user base than by the company itself. But, WG makes one of the few commercial firewalls I feel I could trust, and this is probably only because I already fixed all the bugs. ;) (haha! just kidding. but I have spent a lot of time looking at the code, which helps me trust.) I upgraded the mail gateway I have setup for my parents' business a little while ago. I added a whole bunch of spam stuff and the Amavis virus scanner. My mom hasn't gotten a virus since then, and she used to get them pretty often even with her desktop virus scanner installed (though often disable because it cripples her computer). - Ben _______________________________________________ RLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.rlug.org/mailman/listinfo/rlug
