Clam AV

[Stefan Zauchenberger]

If you want a commercial AV product that provides fast
response for updates, the current leader in this
category is Kaspersky. Check out the following
article:

http://itmanagement.earthweb.com/columns/executive_tech/article.php/3316511

Also, we have numerous installations of MailScanner
with KAV. Let me know if you have any questions. 


--- Drew Marshall <drew at THEMARSHALLS.CO.UK> wrote:
> All
> 
> Following the excitement of the last few days/ weeks
> speed of definition
> update is king. Now I currently use F-Prot and
> Antivir. Both work well,
> F-Prot probably better than Antivir as it was able
> to better scan the
> boken mime formatted mail that came from those nice
> mailserver bounces
> which included the infected message. I also don't
> use the MS update
> scripts, preferring my own cron jobs spaced at
> different hourly times so
> that if MS is called while an update is happening
> the other scanner will
> still work and to attempt to ensure that one scanner
> should catch updates
> no matter which half of the hour they are posted. I
> nearly got caught with
> he Netsky.D when several went through 3 minutes
> before both scanners
> updated (Good old MS blocked the files as they were
> .pif executables, so
> the user was protected).
> 
> Cutting to the chase (Sorry it's been longer winded
> that I anticipated)
> should I also run Clam (Which was updated quite
> quickly yesterday, no
> promise that it wil be in the future but...) or is 3
> AV products over
> kill. The box it's on is not that big so will Clam
> use huge amounts of
> system to run? If not 3 which 2?
> 
> So many questions I know but I would appreciate your
> thoughts.
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Drew
> 
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