Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2003 21:21:10 +0200 From: Gianmarco Giovannelli <gmarco@scotty.masternet.it> To: Bill Moran <wmoran@potentialtech.com> Cc: chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Antivirus for (mailservers on) FreeBSD Message-ID: <5.2.1.1.2.20030612211700.02ecd2a8@194.184.65.7> In-Reply-To: <3EE8C7FB.7040701@potentialtech.com> References: <5.2.1.1.2.20030612202321.02e28008@194.184.65.4> <5.2.1.1.2.20030612202321.02e28008@194.184.65.4>
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At 12/06/2003, Bill Moran wrote: >Gianmarco Giovannelli wrote: >>I was a very happy RAV antivirus (by Gecad) user, a former free company >>that produced a very good, IMHO, antivirus. >>Http://www.ravantivirus.com >>Now RAV was acquired by Microsoft and they'll discontinue all the non >>Windows products. >>This is the email they are sending to the customer asking informations. >> > >On the flip side, we replaced Kaspersky with Sophos and it has been >working wonderfully. Sophos likes to brag about being the fastest to >respond to new threats and my experience with them validates that claim. >It's also fast and reliable. I have used sophos a lot before RAV, but I didn't like to much the following points: 1) the scanner has to be used with amavis, which was obviusly so far slow than the dedicated RAV engine. I think they have a dedicated smtp version, but I don't know if they support FreeBSD natively. 2) the upgrades are good for the single "ide" idea, but are a little pain when you have to change the entire database (monthly based) because you have to rely on manual procedure (sh scripts) to update it. But it was a lot of times ago, perhaps now things are changed. Can you explain how you use it ? Do you use amavis to do the wrapper ? Best Regards, Gianmarco Giovannelli , "Unix expert since yesterday" http://www.gufi.org/~gmarco
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