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Jerry Benton jerry.benton at mailborder.com
Sat Jan 30 06:48:21 UTC 2016


Scratch f-prot. The free version is 32 bit. 

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Jerry Benton
www.mailborder.com



> On Jan 30, 2016, at 1:14 AM, Apu <apu at nocservices.com> wrote:
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> On 1/30/16 1:07 AM, Jerry Benton wrote:
>> Honestly, how many AV’s on that list are actually still in use? Maybe
>> 6 or 8? Well, there are about 40 in the config when you include the
>> daemonized versions as well. We could cut down SweepVirus.pm to about
>> half the size with about a third of the checks. Which = faster
>> scanning, less overhead, less dated code to maintain.
>> 
>> Comments?
> 
> I would suggest a move to more of a "plug-in" architecture.
> 
> Use the existing code as the examples that one could just drop in to use
> any of the anti-virus solutions but leave the AV configuration for the
> administrator doing the install and get rid of the "auto" selection of
> AV engines.  Working out of the box is great, but there is enough other
> stuff that has to be configured to work properly that asking one more
> question (which AV engines should we enable?) is probably not going to
> break any camels' backs.
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