Commercial Antivirus scanner capabilities

[Alex Neuman]

Which is why I recommend it as an alternative to rolling-your-own
MailScanner setup if your budget allows.

On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 10:36 AM, Julian Field
<MailScanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk>wrote:

> 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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