F-Secure, Heuristics and which is best?

[Hywel Burris]

Sorry meant to say I was looking at 3 different ones. Like today I noticed
mcafee didn't pick something up in one mail and f-prot in another....but
clam got both!



-----Original Message-----
From: MailScanner mailing list [mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On Behalf
Of Michael St. Laurent
Sent: 22 April 2004 22:04
To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
Subject: Re: F-Secure, Heuristics and which is best?

We're using the MailScanner-4.29.7/SpamAssassin-2.63/ClamAV-0.70 combination
at Hartwell.  It works flawlessly.

Hywel Burris <mailto:hywel at BURRIS.ORG.UK> wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> It's the same old question which virus scanner should I be using with
> my MailScanner! We are looking at supplying our ADSL customers with
> virus protection with MailScanner; I was originally looking clam
> (first choice for obvious reasons) and f-prot, mcafee and sophos as I
> have used them before with MailScanner and all seemed pretty good.
> 
> To cut a long story short I have asked f-prot and sophos twice for a
> quote but no replies yet....please feel free to mail me offline if you
> know a good supplier for the UK. I spoke to our McAfee reseller today
> and licensing is a bit awkward as it's (as with most per user and per
> year) he suggest F-secure may be more appropriate as its per server
> and he said had the best Heuristic detection in the market all for
> £230ish per server! Here come the questions :-)
> 
> - I haven't used F-Secure does anyone know how quick are the updates
> are? 
> 
> - Does the default MailScanner wrapper activate heuristic scanning?
> If not can this be enabled?
> 
> - I have had least trouble with sophos historically, but recently
> reading this list they seem to have been a bit slow updating their
> signatures. Is this still the case and has it caused many issues?
> 
> Sorry for so many question some of which may be a little off topic.
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Hywel
> 
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