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Date:      Thu, 6 Dec 2001 06:29:13 +0100
From:      "Anthony Atkielski" <anthony@freebie.atkielski.com>
To:        "KD Computers - Adam" <adam@kdcomputers.com>, <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: McAfee VirusScan for FreeBSD
Message-ID:  <008601c17e16$f16123a0$0a00000a@atkielski.com>
References:  <GDELKMOLJCHICOIJNDJGGEELCAAA.adam@kdcomputers.com>

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Ah ... I thought you were talking about your personal e-mail in your own mailbox.  If you are scanning e-mail coming into the
machine as an e-mail server, obviously that makes more sense.

----- Original Message -----
From: "KD Computers - Adam" <adam@kdcomputers.com>
To: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Sent: Thursday, December 06, 2001 06:09
Subject: RE: McAfee VirusScan for FreeBSD


> Uhhh... Windows clients?  :)
>
> Majority of our clients are using windows based machines, all of which use
> outlook, and most of the users arn't smart enough to figure out what to and
> what not to open.
>
> Adam
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Anthony Atkielski [mailto:anthony@freebie.atkielski.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, December 05, 2001 11:11 PM
> To: Mike Tancsa; KD Computers - Adam
> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG
> Subject: Re: McAfee VirusScan for FreeBSD
>
>
> Are virus scanners really worth the effort on FreeBSD?  Just don't open
> e-mail attachments in Outlook (and you can't run Outlook on
> UNIX, anyway, so how could you ever do that?), and you'll be fine.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Mike Tancsa" <mike@sentex.net>
> To: "KD Computers - Adam" <adam@kdcomputers.com>
> Cc: <questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
> Sent: Thursday, December 06, 2001 05:37
> Subject: Re: McAfee VirusScan for FreeBSD
>
>
> >
> > Its sad to say that this was such an exercise in frustration for me.  I
> > finally managed to buy the package from a local distributor (now out of
> > business).  The version on the retail CD was out of date. I thought no big
> > deal, just use the .dat files with the new version from the ftp site....
> > Well, no luck as they are not compatible.  I called NAI and they said they
> > would send me out the updated CD. Got it a 2 weeks later and it was the
> > same CD as I had bought :-(  I called back and nothing since then.  In the
> > end, I just didnt bother to use the CD version and continued to use the
> > eval.
> >
> > ---Mike
> >
> > On Wed, 5 Dec 2001 15:09:02 -0600, in sentex.lists.freebsd.questions you
> > wrote:
> >
> > >Hello,
> > >
> > >Currently I'm using McAfee VirusScan for FreeBSD to scan my incoming
> email,
> > >but how would I go about licensing it?  I have contacted McAfee directly,
> > >but nobody seems to even know what FreeBSD is, let alone that McAfee
> makes
> > >anything for a un*x platform.
> > >
> > >All I need is just a single user version, nothing fancy, as all I'm doing
> is
> > >the email, nothing more.  Any ideas?
> > >
> > >Any help would be greatly appreciated!  Thanks in advance for your time.
> > >
> > >Adam
> > >
> > >
> > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org
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> >
> > Mike Tancsa  (mdtancsa@sentex.net)
> > Sentex Communications Corp,
> > Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
> > "Given enough time, 100 monkeys on 100 routers
> > could setup a national IP network." (KDW2)
> >
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> >
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