Date: Fri, 18 Apr 1997 17:11:30 +0100 (BST) From: Stephen Roome <steve@visint.co.uk> To: Charles Owens <owensc@enc.edu> Cc: hackers@freefall.freebsd.org, Chris Coleman <chris@bb.cc.wa.us> Subject: Re: mcAffee Anti Virus Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.970418170647.11496H-100000@bagpuss.visint.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <Pine.FBS.3.93.970415221637.21281D-100000@dingo.its.enc.edu>
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On Tue, 15 Apr 1997, Charles Owens wrote: > <snipped some stuff> > > The list price is $200. I was utterly amazed at how fast it blew through > scanning 700 megs of PC files. > > anyhow... We run 15 Windows 95 machines off a Samba fileserver here which is a P5-133, with FreeBSD 2.1.5 (soon to be upgraded!). I put the Antivirus demo on it and had similar results, it was (obviously?) faster than windows at checking files and it's damn sight cheaper, as I'm sure it's possible to check remote hard drives with one copy of the server software through smbclient. I don't know if McAfee ought to find out that you can check hundreds of PC's in this way for the price of 2 copies of the PC software, but I thought some of you out there who might not have done this yet, ought to try it out. (For more than 10PC's to check it's cheaper to buy a 486 with samba to just remotely check them once a day). It's not as secure, but it'll save your business money. -- Steve Roome Technical Systems Manager, Vision Interactive Ltd. E: steve@visint.co.uk M: +44 (0) 976 241 342 T: +44 (0) 117 973 0597 F: +44 (0) 117 923 8522
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