[Fwd: Sophos Anti-Virus IDE alert: W32/Netsky-D]

[Rob]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Garry Glendown" <garry at GLENDOWN.DE>
To: <MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK>
Sent: Monday, March 01, 2004 6:36 AM
Subject: Re: [Fwd: Sophos Anti-Virus IDE alert: W32/Netsky-D]


> Steve Freegard wrote:
>
>  > Hi Martin,
>  >
>  > This is pretty poor really isn't it - I've actually just changed my
>  > MailWatch set-up to use Clam as the primary scanner for reporting and
> I've
>  > added 'Worm' to silent viruses as there isn't an easy way to achieve
this
>  > with Sophos (unlike McAfee with the @MM suffix).
>  >
>  > If things don't improve soon, McAfee will have a new customer when our
>  > contract with Sophos expires...
>
>
> We've had pretty good experiences with F-Prot ... usually had the first
> virus in the logfiles well before any announcement of the virus appeared
> on any geek news services
>
> -gg

I second that for f-prot.  We use it here at work and I use it at home.
They send out their updates fast.

Rob