what's this VC noise?

[Julian Field]

At 00:02 13/09/2002, you wrote:
>On Thu, 12 Sep 2002, Julian Field wrote:
>
> > It's noise from Sophos. I've tried stopping it, but it looks like they
> > output to /dev/tty or somewhere like that, which is pretty difficult to
> > stop happening.
>
>OK, that's harmless then.
>
>So far, I like Sophos. It seems to work well and installation was easy.
>
>But I doubt my boss is willing to pay the kind of money the Sophos
>people were talking about when I called them about licensing yesterday.
>
>Is it possible to use on Open-Source scanner like ClamAV and the
>openantivirus.org database? It seems I heard somewhere that someone had
>gotten mailscanner and clamav to work together.

I've yet to see an Open Source scanner that is reliable enough (and
up-to-date enough) to trust your mail to.

If you want a cheap option, go for "F-Prot Small Business Edition" as they
only charge $300 per server for that.
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Julian Field                Teaching Systems Manager
jkf at ecs.soton.ac.uk         Dept. of Electronics & Computer Science
Tel. 023 8059 2817          University of Southampton
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