OT: ClamAV v. ball-dropping Sophos

[Philip Parsons]

I have been running Bitdefender for about 3 months with clamav and they
both do a great job...Bitdefender is right up there with there update
times...

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> [mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On Behalf Of Felipe Tonioli
> Sent: Wednesday, September 01, 2004 7:32 AM
> To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> Subject: Re: OT: ClamAV v. ball-dropping Sophos
> 
> 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
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
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> > Behalf Of Martin Hepworth
> > Sent: Wednesday, September 01, 2004 11:24 AM
> > To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> > Subject: Re: OT: ClamAV v. ball-dropping Sophos
> >
> >
> > 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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