Virii detection very low

[Glenn Steen]

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On 26/10/05, Julian Field <MailScanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk> wrote:
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> Scott Silva wrote:
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> >>You could also add the Bitdefender package. It is also free, and can be
> >>an added safety net just in case a wild Clam update renders it useless
> >>for a day or more.
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> >>
> What exactly is the licensing situation for Bitdefender?
> Is it really free as in beer for all situations? Or when do you have to
> pay for it?
> How do Bitdefender make any profit? (assuming it's not free-as-in-speech)
>
There is a note on this in the wiki
(http://wiki.mailscanner.info/doku.php?id=documentation:anti_virus:bitdefender:install)
...
I think they don't really realize just how useful the "cli onlt"
version is to us:-). And then, as with most AV vendors, the
bread&butter likely comes from windoze desktops... I'm not sure we
want to dig any deeper here;-)

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-- Glenn
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