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Re: Antivirus Software Solutions?
From: psz () maths usyd edu au (Paul Szabo)
Date: Fri, 28 Nov 2003 12:20:12 +1100 (EST)
Nick Price <webmaster () q-cat com> wrote:
I'm looking for two pieces of Antivirus software. The first I would like to filter viruses at the NAT/Gateway itself. The platform should be either Linux, BSD, Solaris, or NT. I'm also looking for Antivirus software to use on each of our workstations. We've been using Norton, but I'd like to know what the "experts" here suggest.
Do not use "traditional" AV at all (as that would never protect you from the latest virus). Rather, set up your email gateway to "defang" all suspicious emails (e.g. containing EXE or SCR or PIF, or ZIP, attachments); it is a matter to debate whether to reject (bounce), drop, or somehow encode such things so as to render harmless. - Probably you will want your email gateway to run UNIX/Linux, so you can set this up. Once your email gateway is "safe", any AV on desktops becomes much less important, but you may still want some "traditional" AV on your desktops; any reasonably well supported product should do. For some more blurb/details please see http://www.maths.usyd.edu.au:8000/u/psz/pc/virus.html Cheers, Paul Szabo - psz () maths usyd edu au http://www.maths.usyd.edu.au:8000/u/psz/ School of Mathematics and Statistics University of Sydney 2006 Australia _______________________________________________ Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. Charter: http://lists.netsys.com/full-disclosure-charter.html
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