On Sat, 12 Jan 2002, Dave Ihnat wrote:

> On Fri, Jan 11, 2002 at 09:24:36PM -0800, Enrique Bory Simon wrote:
> > why not sendmail + amavis + mcafee ??????????? all free and you can gain an
> > excellent effect
> 
> 1.  Sendmail, yes.
> 
> 2.  Amavis--I haven't used it, but it does the same thing as MailScanner.
>     I haven't read anything bad about it.
> 
I use it on several servers. Nice.

> 3.  McAfee has several warts.  First, it is NOT free.  They're extremely
Could have fooled me.
>     unresponsive to Linux/Unix questions.  They've buried the Linux
>     product so it's virtually impossible to find on their web site.
>     (Actually, I just went to look and can't even FIND an eval download
>     for Linux on the McAfee site; you have to go in through www.nai.com,
>     and it is clearly not free.) I have read in this group that they
>     release AV updates for Linux as much as a month after they're released
>     for the PC.

Actually, Linux VirusScan uses the 4.x engine dat files which I believe 
are updated weekly, so that means it's updated weekly if you get the 
files. 

Speaking from experience here.




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