Commercial Antivirus scanner capabilities

[Julian Field]

I would have to very strongly recommend BarricadeMX from Fort Systems. 
It's cheap, it will save you a lot in MailScanner hardware, and it 
*really* does work. Very well.

Jules.

On 11/3/09 14:47, Alex Neuman wrote:
> I've personally and subjectively found antispam products from people 
> other than Julian lacking in almost every respect - from bad default 
> settings to false positives in ranges too high to work comfortably.
>
> I've also found that ClamAV by itself is very good - and when combined 
> with one (or more, if hardware allows) commercial engines you get a 
> very thin additional layer of protection that's not bad, but the 
> licensing has to be really cheap in order to get a reasonable ROI.
>
> On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 9:33 AM, Jonas Akrouh Larsen <jonas at vrt.dk 
> <mailto:jonas at vrt.dk>> wrote:
>
>     Hi all
>
>     I recently had to renew one of our antivirus licenses for mailscanner.
>
>     And I got to thinking, do anybody use a product which on top of
>     simple virus protection also
>
>     includes some sort of spam protection which can be used in
>     combination with mailscanner?
>
>     The reason I am asking is that a lot of the AV companies got anti
>     spam products so I was just wondering if
>
>     Any of them could be used in combination with mailscanner to help
>     spamassassin kill all the spam.
>
>     Atm. we use:
>
>     F-secure (Which includes kaspersky’s engine)
>
>     ClamAV (Obviously)
>
>     ESET NOD32 (Because we got a great deal with them)
>
>     Of those I only know about 3^rd party sigs for ClamAV.
>
>     So if anybody have any tips or suggestions let me know J
>
>     Jonas A. Larsen, Support
>
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Jules

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