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Date:      Fri, 21 Feb 2003 11:35:52 -0800 (PST)
From:      David Raistrick <drais@wow.atlasta.net>
To:        Paul Khavkine <paul@colba.net>
Cc:        freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Antivirus for Sendmail
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0302211121280.77216-100000@wow.atlasta.net>
In-Reply-To: <3E567D29.9456A38E@colba.net>

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> I'm looking at following products:
> F-PROT

I use the linux f-prot binary daily.  It's never given me a problem in my
qmail-scanner setup.

> AVP

I tried both freebsd and linux versions of AVP's scanners as of late 2001
early 2002.  I worked with their sendmail versions as well as their
qmail-queue replacement.  I also used their kavscanner and attempted to
use kavdaemon.   My overall impression was "very unstable" though at this
late date I don't have further specifics.  It's very possible that they've
fixed some of the problems I encountered at the time.


I've also worked with uvscan from mcaffe just a few months ago.  (one of
the developers here in the office worked with it much more then I..he was
working with their sdk).  When compared to fprot speed/utilisation was
generally the same.  Some specific situations (sorry, I don't have any
notes on this) could cause extreme results (fprot can potentially take a
/very/ long time to scan...) with both.

fprot has always had new updates available quickly....I update every
twelve hours.  My current virus signatures is from feb19/15:34, macro
signatures from feb17/6:54   fprot 3.12a

> Ease of updating

Initially they had no formal process, so I wrote a shell script to do it
(a few versions ago..).  Now they include a shell script to do the
updates.  I haven't used it since it's written for bash...I felt no need
or desire to port it or install bash since my own script continued to do
the job fine for me.


I was happy with fprot when it was free...and I'm still happy with it now
that it's not.


....david



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