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 The version on the retail CD was out of date.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 > > >with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > > > 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) > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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