AV Engine Licence

[Jim Robinson]

I have over 12 mail servers with MailScanner installed and ClamAV catches
more than Sophos.

Just my zero cents worth (As ClamAV is free)

I would stick with ClamAV, sleep easy and have more budget left to spend.
Having said that, you still need good AV on the desktops unless you remove
all CD/DVD and Floppy drives and ban all external email and webmail access.
Even then it might be an idea to ban users on them too  as you'll still find
some chump who can get a virus frorm a web page.  :)

Anyway, joking aside, even with the best AV on your mail server your
desktops still need good AV at the desktop level as well.  A decent IDS on
the network perimeter (Snort) really helps with Virus issues but I'm getting
off topic!

Jim
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Anders Andersson, IT" <anders.andersson at LTKALMAR.SE>
To: <MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK>
Sent: Wednesday, March 31, 2004 9:35 AM
Subject: SV: AV Engine Licence


> > -----Ursprungligt meddelande-----
> > Från: Volkan Evrin [mailto:linux at karel.com.tr]
> > Skickat: den 31 mars 2004 14:18
> > Till: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> > Ämne: AV Engine Licence
> >
> > I installed MailScanner and perfectly be satisfied. I install
> > trial version of Sophos AV Unix (not SAVI) and it is still
> > working very well.
> >
> > I want to use Sophos and Kaspersky AV engine to search the
> > e-mails, but local reseller said you should use SAVI licence
> > model for each mailbox individually.  Is it true? I have 300
> > clients and should I registered all the boxes? (too much money!...)
> >
> > Or, could you suggest any other free/cheap virus detection
> > licence model or solution that can be used with MailScanner?
>
> Clamav sounds like a solution for you and depending on your OS you might
> consider eTrust from CA that dont care if it's a mailserver or klient,
same
> price for each client. Or if your bold you just buy one license and and
say
> your not scanning mail instead your scanning files in one place and only
one
> user is doing the scanning. Might not be legaly perfect but hey, what is.
> Its all a mather of how you want to interpret whats being scanned   =)
>
>
> >
> > Volkan Evrin
> >