Virus scanners and universities

[Thomas DuVally]

On Tue, 2003-12-02 at 22:49, Nathan Johanson wrote:
> CA (etrust) is actually ~$129.00 for five node licenses. You could
> install it on five "servers" for that price. 
> --Nathan
> 

That sounds great, but is anyone using it and how is it?


> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Julian Field [mailto:mailscanner at ECS.SOTON.AC.UK] 
> Sent: Tuesday, December 02, 2003 12:20 PM
> To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> Subject: Re: Virus scanners and universities
> 
> 
> At 20:12 02/12/2003, you wrote:
> >Hi all,
> >         I'm looking for some info on what other universities and
> colleges are
> >doing in the MS/virus scanning area.
> >
> >         We (Brown University, USA) are using MS and hacked in support
> for
> >Symantec Scan Engine.  Cost issues are starting to creep in again and
> we
> >want to know what some other options are.  We love MS and just wanna
> >know what the virus scanners cost you (total or per
> >address/user/FTE/whatever)
> 
> ClamAV is free and open source, and is remarkably good.
> eTrust from Computer Associates (www.ca.com) is only $129 per server.
> Norman (www.norman.de) is free for non-commercial use.
> Sophos have extremely good educational discounts.
> 
> Start with those...
> --
> Julian Field
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Thomas J. DuVally
Lead Systems Prog.
CIS, Brown Univ.

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