F-Secure, Heuristics and which is best? {Virus Scanned}

[Christo Bezuidenhout]

We are using F-secure(all 3 scan engines) and clamav. Not one Viri got
through yet. 

> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On Behalf Of Hywel Burris
> Sent: 22 April 2004 10:40 PM
> To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> Subject: F-Secure, Heuristics and which is best? {Virus Scanned}
> 
> 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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