bdc replacement

[Glenn Steen]

On 10/04/06, Dhawal Doshy <dhawal at netmagicsolutions.com> wrote:
> Hello List,
>
> BDC has lately become a cpu hog (or maybe i discovered recently). Am

Really? How bad is it? Could you perhaps describe your setup a bit,
and perhaps some volume figures....?

> wondering if there are any other alternatives in the command line virus
> scanning world that are free (as in beer) OR relatively cheap and
> consume much less resources.
>
> I've been using clamav and uvscan for quite some time (qmail-scanner
> days) and am more / less happy with their performance.. so any other
> suggestions would be welcome.
>
> Also a couple of questions for Julian:
>
> 1. Shouldn't "LogFile=/tmp/log.bdc.$$" in bitdefender-wrapper point to
> something like /var/spool/MailScanner/incoming/log.bdc.$$ and take
> advantage of the tmpfs partition?
>
> 2. Also i don't see any options being used in the bitdefender-wrapper
> script (similar to ExtraOptions in clamav-wrapper). Any particular
> reason why? Is it because MailScanner handles all the unpacking of
> attachments?
>
> thanks,
> - dhawal

Well, there are some that are free for private/home/non-commercial use
.... like Antivir (or avira or whatever they like to be called....
http://www.free-av.com), AVG etc... (Avast is too, if you'd like to
try your hand at writing a wrapper (I don't think it is included in
the "supported set":-)). Panda isn't free, even though they say so,
since you need to pay for updates, and besides.... It's not that well
come together (although Ricks "new" wrapper makes it somewhat less of
a hog), so I wouldn't recommend that one ... But it is cheap, one has
to give it that... If one were a bit sarcastic, one might say it is
cheap in every sense of the word;).

If I'd look at anything new, it'd probably be ine if the four: AVG,
Sophos, F-secure or F-prot.... with possibly nod32 as a remote
outsider:-).

Anyway, I've been happy with the same setup you've got (clam, bdc and
mcafee), so would realy be interrested to hear what numbers you can
present.
Cheers
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