OT: ClamAV v. ball-dropping Sophos

[Felipe Tonioli]

About this topic, what you guys have to say about BitDefender ?

I'm running bd for more then a month and have not to comply about that, but,
what you guys says about that ?

tks
Felipe Tonioli

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> Sent: Wednesday, September 01, 2004 11:24 AM
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> Subject: Re: OT: ClamAV v. ball-dropping Sophos
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> Dustin
>
> yup - had conversations with Sophos tech support about timeliness of
> updates. They don't (or didn't at the time) compare themselves to ClamAV
> for update speed, or monitor them...
>
> BUT I have seen Sophos dump quicker than ClamAV on at least one occasion
> this year. Sophos haven't been top of the update league for a while
> (Kapersky and others tend to be faster), but I tend to find they go a
> good job apart from that (and they are local - 10 miles down the road!).
>
>
> Moral of the story - more than one scanner is best...
>
> --
> Martin Hepworth
> Snr Systems Administrator
> Solid State Logic
> Tel: +44 (0)1865 842300
>
>
> Dustin Baer wrote:
> > Anyone who is using Sophos only should be aware that their update for
> > Troj/BagleD1-A (bagled-a.ide) came out a full FOUR hours after ClamAV
> > was detecting infected zips as Trojan.JS.RunMe.
> >
> > Their second update for Troj/BagleD1-A came out 3.5 hours after ClamAV
> > was detecting infected zips as Trojan.Dropper.Small-11.
> >
> > I installed ClamAV about a month ago.  I wish I had done it a year ago.
> > It's free, and if you aren't using it, you aren't doing much service to
> > your organization.
> >
> > Dustin
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