Your pick of the virus scanners...

[Kevin Miller]

>-----Original Message-----
>From: David Hooton [mailto:david at PLATFORMHOSTING.COM]

>Feel free to scream at me if this has been beaten to death previously,
>but I'm looking for some kind of feedback as to what virus scanner
>everyone is using.
>
>We're currently using ClamAV and Mcafee, but are looking for a third
>scanner to add to the mix, it is incredibly rare that anything gets
>through, but as a due diligence thing I would like to add the third.
>
>I have seen heaps of people talking about F-prot and Sophos, but if you
>had to choose 3, which 3 would you choose?
>
>I'm looking for an economical solution that is not licensed
>per mail box.

We're running Trend on our internal network, and servers including Exchange
5.5.  Works well, timely updates, etc. but that's on the Windows side.
Haven't looked at them on Linux yet.  We wanted a different virus scanner on
our mail servers for additional security so on one I have f-prot, and the
other f-secure and clam.  All are working well.  I got my f-prot before they
went to per mail box licensing.  We'll see next April, but unless they
change the cost I'll probably change that.  F-secure was willing to work
w/me cost wise so I went w/them (and clam) on the 2nd box.  Command
antivirus (http://www.authentium.com/) was also willing to work w/me, so
they may be worth checking out.  Standard disclaimers apply; no affiliation,
etc.

S'later...

...Kevin
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