Besides clamav what other AV for MS

[Hugo van der Kooij]

On Wed, 28 Feb 2007, Glenn Steen wrote:

> On 28/02/07, Erick Perez <eaperezh at gmail.com> wrote:
>>  I use clamav+MS in a small business. Besides clamav, what other AV
>>  engine that is also free can i use in a business? I see bitdefender
>>  has a free scanner but is targeted at home use.
>> 
> Although it isn't easy to find, one can probably still DL BitDefender
> commandline (bdc for short)... version 7.1... It is very usable in
> small to medium setups, but not that swell for the large to really
> large setups (number of messages/day being the defining factor... I've
> heard people being less than enthused by its CPU-hungry behaviour on
> systems handling 100k+200k/day).
> Other than that, no-cost options _for businesses_ is pretty scarce...
> There are some less expensive than others, but you generally get what
> you pay for (and in some cases you don't even get that).

If you known what you are doing there are about a dozen different scanners 
you can install and keep up2date with on Linux. Their qualities differ. As 
does the CPU impact.

I guess I need to include timing details in my overview beside the scan 
results themselves.

Hugo.

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