eTrust support

[Nathan Johanson]

Just curious... Have you tried it on RH 9? I have a vague memory of you
mentioning that they were "working on" support for RH 9. I'm in the
market for a new scanner (given the situation with f-prot), but CA's
lagging support for recent OS distributions scares me a little bit.
What's their status on this?

Nathan

-----Original Message-----
From: Alan Fiebig [mailto:mailscanner at ELKNET.NET] 
Sent: Wednesday, August 13, 2003 6:23 PM
To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
Subject: Re: eTrust support


On Aug 7, 2003 Julian said:
>I've pursuaded it (eTrust) to install on RedHat 8.0 (the patch on CA's
web site
>works), and support for it in MailScanner appears to be working just
fine.



Just a note:

This evening I received an email from CA that said they just released
free update patches to eTrust to now fully support:
  Red Hat 8.0
  Red Hat Advanced Server 2.1
  SCO Linux 4
  SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 8

Now no extra effort is needed :)

I was comforted to also see that:
  "CA is the proud recipient of the "Best Security
   Solution" award, LinuxWorld Expo & Conference,
   January, 2003 for eTrust Antivirus v7:"

Since I installed eTrust along with Julian's beta 4.23-2, it has been
working without fault. I've been comparing its 'catches' to ClamAV, and
it is catching more viruses. Julian's auto-update is working great too,
it just needs the final touches to log successful updates to the log
file.

>From my perspective, the second best feature, next to it performing so
well, is its cost. $110 buys you a five license version (5 is the
smallest they sell), which includes the following versions all in the
one package :
  Linux (valid for workstation or server install)
  Windows
  PocketPC
  Lotus Domino server
  Microsoft Exchange server
  Microsoft IIS server
  Netware Groupwise server
  Checkpoint Firewall plugin
  Standalone Gateway server (scans SMTP, HTTP, FTP traffic)
  Apache RedHat Plugin

Not bad for $110, you can install one copy with MailScanner, and have 4
copies left to install anywhere you want, from your PDA to your Linux or
Microsoft workstations and servers.

Julian, thanks for the quick implementation with MS!

-Alan