From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jun 12 05:51:23 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 417BC37B401 for ; Thu, 12 Jun 2003 05:51:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pa-plum1b-166.pit.adelphia.net (pa-plum1b-217.pit.adelphia.net [24.53.161.217]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7E83D43F85 for ; Thu, 12 Jun 2003 05:51:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wmoran@potentialtech.com) Received: from potentialtech.com (working [172.16.0.95]) h5CCpCOg002108; Thu, 12 Jun 2003 08:51:13 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from wmoran@potentialtech.com) Message-ID: <3EE87740.3040600@potentialtech.com> Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2003 08:51:12 -0400 From: Bill Moran User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.3) Gecko/20030429 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Olivier Nicole References: <200306120302.KAA23774@bazooka.cs.ait.ac.th> In-Reply-To: <200306120302.KAA23774@bazooka.cs.ait.ac.th> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: george@vagner.com cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: * FreeBSD AntiVirus Solutions * X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2003 12:51:23 -0000 Olivier Nicole wrote: >>i am using the norton av eval version with auto updates >>works fine so far, i will let you know when i finish evaluating it. > > The debate may become OT, but problem with Norton and other McAfee is > that updates are committed at a very low frequency (few days?) which > leave you with a large risk window when you know that new viruses > usually circulate the world round in less than 12 hours. > > Sophos (from what they claim) and Kaspersky (to a lesser extend) will > provide updates on the hour basis (I do automatic update every other > hour). That makes a huge difference on th einsecure window. I can vouch for Sophos doing this. I got an email about the Bugbear-B from Sophos telling me to update my profiles to get protection before I heard about it from anywhere else. -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com