Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2001 10:01:46 +1000 From: Tony Landells <ahl@austclear.com.au> To: Keith <keith@red.hot.net.au> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: uvscan McAfee Message-ID: <200108160001.KAA02751@tungsten.austclear.com.au> In-Reply-To: Message from Keith <keith@red.hot.net.au> of "Thu, 16 Aug 2001 01:10:04 %2B1000." <200108151510.f7FFA4E07056@red.hot.net.au>
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Hi Keith, keith@red.hot.net.au said: > I just installed uvscan and inflex and it all works fine. > I wish to buy a licence for the software and went to the web site, > What product is it ? and the site www.nai.com is for the US or > Canadian only and I'm in .au From the NAI home page, pull down the list that shows "NAI Worldwide" and go to the item that says "Other Countries Visit Global English Site" which will then give you a "Buy Products" option in the "BUY/TRY" section, from which you can lists of sales offices, and so on. In terms of what product you want, good luck! When NAI got the McAfee stuff they started producing "suites" of software which means you generally have to buy more than you want. You'll need to speak to their sales people to find out what the smallest suite is that includes VirusScan for UNIX. However (since you don't get anything for free--including this help) I'm actually trying to get our company to move away from uvscan. Don't get me wrong, it works quite adequately on our Solaris servers but apart from them making you buy (well, annually license, at least) more than you want, I have had a couple of problems with the product. One minor quibble was when they decided a good way to detect the Anna Kournikova virus was to consider anything with the string "AnnaKournikova.jpg.vbs" (or whatever the attachment was called) infected. Which would mean, for example, that I couldn't have sent this e-mail. And you couldn't report it to NAI via e-mail... They had that one fixed within a day of us reporting it. My real problem is that UNIX seems to be very much the "poorer cousin". When the Melissa virus came out, the signature for NT appeared within hours. There was no signature for UNIX because the engine couldn't detect it anyway, and the next engine release wasn't due for two or three months(!) I'm just happy we don't run Outlook... We've also looked at, for example, their e-mail gateway virus scanner, and many of the features in the NT version just aren't supported on the UNIX version (such as their "Outbreak Manager" which will stop processing e-mail from a domain if the frequency of messages reaches a pre-defined threshold). I'd rather give my money to someone who seems to be serious about supporting UNIX. Tony -- Tony Landells <ahl@austclear.com.au> Senior Network Engineer Ph: +61 3 9677 9319 Australian Clearing Services Pty Ltd Fax: +61 3 9677 9355 Level 4, Rialto North Tower 525 Collins Street Melbourne VIC 3000 Australia To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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