Running Multiple Virus Scanners

[David While]

Yes - you are less likely to miss the odd virus with multiple scanners. For example if you look at my stats at http://mail.boys-brigade.org.uk/mrtg you will see that ClamAV has detected one more virus than F-Prot over the same period of time.
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David While
Technical Development Manager
Faculty of Computing, Information & English
University of Central England
Tel: 0121 331 6211
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Sent: 15 March 2004 14:55
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Subject: Running Multiple Virus Scanners


Lads,

I've noticed in some of the threads here that some are running multiple
virus scanners;  For the newbie, is there a particularly good reason for
this?

I have f-prot running at the moment now on a Cobalt RAQ4;  Would I benefit
from adding clam (or any other for that matter)?  Obviously there is a
processing penalty for adding subsequent virus scanners but is there an up
side??

Thanks,

Ron

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Ron Hahn, Senior Analyst
Management Services Department
Southern Health Board
Aras Slainte, Ground Floor
Dennehy's Cross,
Cork, Ireland
Tel. +353 (0)21-492-3669


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