SV: Anti Virus Software and which to get

[Henrik Bro]

If you want to use F-Prot you have to buy license for all the users (250) it
will protect. I asked them what if I used it on a smtp-gateway, and the
answer was that I still had to buy license for the number of users/mailboxes
that the smtp-gateway would protect.

RAV sales mailed me that they will stop selling AV-products because of the
Microsoft AV Alliance-thing!



This is what I found interesting:

License by server (not by users or domain) is possible with "CA eTrust" and
"Frisk F-Secure".

If you are non-commercial you can use Trend-Mircro for free. See
http://kb.trendmicro.com/solutions/solutionDetail.asp?solutionID=7353

BitDefender have nice discounts for educational institutions.

And the open-source ClamAV (for free and works just fine). I know that it
can not cure the file, but most of the virus we get is worms. And I use it
with commercial scanners.

Best regards,
Henrik Bro




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af Christopher Lyon
Sendt: 16. august 2003 02:47
Til: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
Emne: Anti Virus Software and which to get


I know this question has been asked but I don't know that the details have
been given and I wanted to clarify something before I spend some money. I
also noted the FAQ on f-prot and that is also where some confusion came into
play. It said the price as a flat fee and not based on users. $300 per
server.  Anyway, here is the break down and any comments would be great.
Also, if there is anything else like McAfee that is worth looking at the is
flat fee based, please bring it up.


f-prot
F-Prot Antivirus for Linux/BSD Mail Server - $299.00 based on 1-24 users
F-Prot Antivirus for Linux/BSD File Server - $389.00

So, if I am using this as a gateway and was wondering if I can just use the
fileserver version of f-prot? Otherwise it would be a lot for the 250 users
we have and I would be better off getting f-secure or RAV. 


f-secure 
F-Secure Anti-Virus v4.50 for Servers for Linux - $269.00

RAV
RAV AntiVirus for Sendmail(Linux) - $299.00 based on two domains

Both f-secure and RAV are good and about the same with a small difference.
RAV is based on domains but f-secure isn't. So, does this matter with
MailScanner or is this a moot issue? Sounds like f-secure is the way to go.


Clav 
Clav is open source but it doesn't disinfect. We will need it to disinfect.