David, I have talked to CA who makes our virus scanner. If you use amavisd that is set to spawn no more than 1 copy of the virus scanner you only need 1 workstation license, that's one copy on disk and one copy in memory, and one user only of a virus scanner. I take the definition of a user as a user on a UNIX host. And the amavis service account counts as one user.
Who cares if we use it outside its intended use? The 3 people I have talked to in CA and wrote emails to don't! Having an exchange/IMAP server behind your virus scanner is not relevant. Have you read Dan Bernstein's document on software licensing? http://cr.yp.to/softwarelaw.html Have you checked to see if the same federal laws apply here? Cheers, Luke McKee System Administrator RTS Realtime Systems Pty Ltd -----Original Message----- From: David Kempe [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, 24 December 2001 10:01 AM To: Luke McKee; 'Jon Biddell' Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [SLUG] Helpdesk Actually Luke, I don't know if you have investigated this, but you are incorrect when you say all it takes is a 1 user license. We have investigated most of the big scanners that have Linux versions and they all require licensing per user protected. Which means that any user that has a mailbox you have to buy a license for. However, we are using NOD32 which doesn't have what I think is a silly rule. But I know that Mcafee and Sophos have this rule dave > You can't fix the world or every office running a crusade against outlook. > If you don't like viruses, bit your teeth and invest in a 1 user license for > a commercial virus scanner and then run amavis. A 1 user license of most > linux commercial virus scanners is all it takes to protect one company from > viruses. > > MS's stupid exchange virus scanning API ensures that you have to buy many > antivirus licensing, and because it's mailbox level scanning (not MTA) you > have to buy licenses per the user.. yuck. > > Hope I helped. > > Cheers, > > Luke -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
