Virus Scanners as a ruleset? (Veering slightly OT)

[Alex Neuman]

True, but in the spirit of nit-picking, said "machine taking advantage of
scanning" could be, say, an exchange server with a gazillion users, right?
:)

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Sent: Tuesday, June 15, 2004 11:46 AM
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Subject: Re: Virus Scanners as a ruleset?

At 18.24 15/06/2004, you wrote:
>IANAL, but in theory you are only using "one" user (root) to scan incoming
>mail, so "in theory" you only need "one" license.
>
>In any case using both ClamAV and BitDefender you should be OK. The other
>alternative would be to run separate processes with separate settings, or
>even separate boxes.
>
>Too much trouble, I would think.

Yes, too much. Antivirus licensing is not a simple matter. User could mean
"machines taking advantages of the scanning" as in Sophos license. I know
that mailscanner only need the command line scanner, but would the
antivirus companies accept that you use a file server license when they all
sells their own mail scanning software? In this case Kaspersky look pretty
cheap.


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