New sophos version 5.0 support

[Adri Koppes]

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Julian,

I agree not putting all my eggs in one basket.
I already have ClamAv and BitDefender running on the MS server.
Sophos would be added to that.

Adri.


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Julian Field [mailto:MailScanner at ECS.SOTON.AC.UK]
> Sent: 27 April, 2005 17:35
> To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> Subject: Re: New sophos version 5.0 support
> 
> 
> Ooh, this is the first I have heard of V5. I haven't tried it with
> MailScanner yet, but I will try to  either this weekend or  some time
> next week. I've got a few other things to do first, but it is 
> definitely
> on the list.
> 
> Thanks for the heads-up!
> 
> As for the other question, I deliberately have 
> separately-managed F-Prot
> installations on my email gateways as well as Sophos. Then if the
> central management system and/or Sophos fails, my mail is still
> protected. Going to total central management is fine as long as it
> works. If it fails, everything fails together. Beware.
> 
> Adri Koppes wrote:
> 
> >I have evaluated Sophos 3.xx running on FreeBSD 4.10, called 
> from Mailscanner using the perl SAVI module.
> >I have noticed Sophos have announced the new version 5.0 on 
> their website and are dropping support for the 3.xx version 
> by the end of 2005.
> >Before purchasing a new license, does the new version 5.0 
> also work with MailScanner and/or the perl SAVI module? I'll 
> probably upgrade the mailserver to FreeBSD 5.4 64bit in the 
> near future.
> >If not, does anyone know of any other good anti virus 
> software with centralized management in a mixes 
> Windows/FreeBSD network?
> >
> >Thanks,
> >
> 
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