Free antivirus software

Glenn Steen glenn.steen at gmail.com
Fri Jan 23 13:26:18 GMT 2009


2009/1/23 Gareth <list-mailscanner at linguaphone.com>:
> 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
> ------
> Is there anyone who doesnt use it!
>
> Bitdefender
> -----------
> 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
> ------
> I need to upgrade to 6.0.2 from
> http://www.f-prot.com/download/home_user/download_fplinux.html
>
> AVG
> ---
> Version 7.5 is available from http://free.avg.com/download?prd=afl and
> appears to be supported by MailScanner.
>
> AVAST
> -----
> Linux version 1.3 available from
> http://www.avast.com/eng/download-avast-for-linux-edition.html
> Looks to be supported my MailScanner.
>
> Panda
> -----
> 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
>
Avira (http://www.free-av.com/en/download/download_servers.php ...
formerly Antivir) should work well for personal use too.

Cheers
-- 
-- Glenn
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