From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Dec 5 21:29:28 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from freebie.atkielski.com (ASt-Lambert-101-2-1-14.abo.wanadoo.fr [193.251.59.14]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 68A1437B417 for ; Wed, 5 Dec 2001 21:29:22 -0800 (PST) Received: from contactdish (contactdish.atkielski.com [10.0.0.10]) by freebie.atkielski.com (8.11.3/8.11.3) with SMTP id fB65TDx03466; Thu, 6 Dec 2001 06:29:13 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from anthony@freebie.atkielski.com) Message-ID: <008601c17e16$f16123a0$0a00000a@atkielski.com> From: "Anthony Atkielski" To: "KD Computers - Adam" , References: Subject: Re: McAfee VirusScan for FreeBSD Date: Thu, 6 Dec 2001 06:29:13 +0100 Organization: Anthony's Home Page (development site) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4522.1200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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" To: 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" > To: "KD Computers - Adam" > Cc: > 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