Best Virus Scanners to use with MailScanner

[Scott Silva]

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Steen, Glenn said the following on 6/14/2005 3:42 AM:
> Julian Field wrote:
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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.
> 
> 
> Since a while back they've gone to daily updates, which has greatly
> reduced the need for the pesky "extra.dat" files. They're still a bit
> slow when it comes to updates, but less bad than they used to be.
> 
> 
>>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. 
> 
> 
> Rick has made this viable as a 4:th or 5:th scanner IMO. If you already
> have a Panda license, it's not that bad... Unless, of course, you try
> use
> the old wrapper... Look at
> http://wiki.mailscanner.info/doku.php?id=documentation:anti_virus:panda:
> install
> (all on one line, of course:) for my views on versions of MS (which
> might
> be wrong:-), and the necessary one-line "mini-patch" etc.
> You perhaps shouldn't rely on it as the sole saviour, but it should be
> at least marginally useable.
> 
> (snip)
> 
>>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
>>>
> 
> (snip)
> I'd say you're pretty well protected already. I've been running with
> "only" ClamAV, McAfee and BitDefender for approx a year now, without
> anything slipping through. Sure sometimes only one will catch a new
> variant, but one is enough:-). And they've all taken turns being first.
> 
> -- Glenn
> 
Same here! And usually anything that might have been missed was caught
by filename and filetype rules.

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