Best Virus Scanners to use with MailScanner

[Julian Field]

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This is an age-old question, but you will find a lot of MailScanner 
systems depend on ClamAV and BitDefender (for cost reasons) and one 
other that varies. I personally recommend Sophos or F-Prot, they are my 
favourites.

McAfee seems to be unreliable as they aren't very fast about putting out 
updates, and they have this funny system or normal virus siganture files 
and "extra" ones when they feel like it. Other people can comment on 
McAfee better than I can.

We have a site licence for Sophos, which as a University did not cost us 
much for what I reckon is a very good product.

I would recommend *against* using Panda, it's diabolical. Poor old Rick 
Cooper seems to spend a lot of his time trying to get the virus 
detection working properly with Panda, due to their stupid output system.

ClamAV is not only free (as in beer, and as in speech), but is also very 
good indeed. They are very often faster to respond to new viruses than 
most/all of the commercial competition.

In the first few hours of a new virus, MailScanner does of course 
protect you using the other checks, such as the filename and filetype 
detection, both of which are vital and which don't exist in most of the 
commercial competition.

Want to get a new virus executable straight into Microsoft's own 
corporate mail system? Call it blah_exe instead of blah.exe and tell the 
recipients to rename it for some reason you think up. They have no 
filetype protection, only filename. And they say they are serious about 
making their products secure? They should start by fixing the packages 
they rely on themselves!

Hope some of that helps.

Michael H. Martel wrote:

> Hello!
>
> I'm looking at making sure we get as few viruses as possible.  To 
> which end we're currently using ClamAV, McAfee, BitDefender, and 
> F-Prot as our Virus Scanners.  What do people consider to be the best 
> AV packages to use with MailScanner ?
>
> Thanks!
>
>
> Michael
>
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