Free antivirus software

Gareth list-mailscanner at linguaphone.com
Fri Jan 23 11:21:52 GMT 2009


Currently at home I am running clamav 0.94.2, bitdefender 7.5.4 and
f-prot 4.6.7.
I am running MailScanner 4.70.7-1

I am looking for suggestions for other free antivirus I could be running
(personal use only is fine as its a home server)

A summary of what I have found so far :-

Clamav
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Is there anyone who doesnt use it!

Bitdefender
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Used 7.1.3 at work and it worked fine. 7.5.4 that I use at home works
fine but the update script doesnt work and just sais no updates
avialable and you are protected from -5 viruses. I just run 'bdscan
--update' from cron so not a problem.

Dont know the version number of the current version which you can
request a license for at :-
http://www.bitdefender.com/PRODUCT-80-en--BitDefender-Antivirus-Scanner-for-Unices.html
Version 7.6 is currently at beta 3 and it looks like the beta program
finished a couple of days ago.
Anyone know if this new version can be used with mailscanner?
It looks to have a graphical
interhttp://www.f-prot.com/download/home_user/download_fplinux.htmlface
so I suppose it depends if it has a command line option.

F-Prot
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I need to upgrade to 6.0.2 from
http://www.f-prot.com/download/home_user/download_fplinux.html

AVG
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Version 7.5 is available from http://free.avg.com/download?prd=afl and
appears to be supported by MailScanner.

AVAST
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Linux version 1.3 available from
http://www.avast.com/eng/download-avast-for-linux-edition.html
Looks to be supported my MailScanner.

Panda
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Version 7.01 available from
http://www.pandasoftware.com/download/linux/linux.asp
Looks to be supported by MailScanner.


Have I missed any?
Any feedback as to how well they work and if the latest versions work
with MailScanner would be appreciated.

Thanks
Gareth




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