Re: Anti-Virus Software

[shamrock () engram psych uw edu pl]

salgak () speakeasy net napisał: 

> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Justin F. Knox [mailto:jknox () indexzero org]
> > Sent: Wednesday, August 6, 2003 11:43 PM
> > To: security-basics () securityfocus com
> > Subject: RE: Anit-Virus Software 
> >
> > In the field, I have worked with McAfee, CA, Symantec (Norton) and Trend
> > Micro.
>
> I've also worked with SOPHOS.  Nice product, VERY lightweight as far as system impact goes, highly clueful tech 
> support: at a now-2-years-dead dotcom I worked for, it identified one of our custom Java applets as viral.  With a code 
> sample and a copy of the AV message, they had an updated definitions file to us in 4 hours. . . and pushed it out to the 
> world as well.

I disagree. I used Sophos over 2 years and I had some problems.
It didn't find viruses sometimes although I made upgrades.
I also used it with amavis and qmail and it sometimes crashed my MTA . 

Best wishes, 

Shamrock

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