From owner-freebsd-security Fri Sep 6 17:39:51 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E939A37B400; Fri, 6 Sep 2002 17:39:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp.comcast.net (smtp.comcast.net [24.153.64.2]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4C3EA43E3B; Fri, 6 Sep 2002 17:39:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from lomifeh@earthlink.net) Received: from bgp586692bgs.jdover01.nj.comcast.net (bgp586692bgs.jdover01.nj.comcast.net [68.39.202.147]) by mtaout05.icomcast.net (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.1 HotFix 0.8 (built May 13 2002)) with ESMTP id <0H210086OLU2H0@mtaout05.icomcast.net>; Fri, 06 Sep 2002 20:39:38 -0400 (EDT) Date: Fri, 06 Sep 2002 20:39:38 -0400 From: Lawrence Sica Subject: Re: Anti-virus section for FAQ In-reply-to: <20020906223033.69179.qmail@web14601.mail.yahoo.com> To: Jerry Murdock Cc: freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Message-id: <4A393ABF-C1FA-11D6-9989-000393A335A2@earthlink.net> MIME-version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.543) Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Friday, September 6, 2002, at 06:30 PM, Jerry Murdock wrote: > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Lawrence Sica" > To: > Cc: > Sent: Friday, September 06, 2002 2:23 PM > Subject: Fwd: Anti-virus section for FAQ > >> Oops, helps if I post the url eh ;) >> >> http://www.thesicafamily.org/larry/articles/avfaq.html >> >> Sorry about that. >> > > I'd add a disclaimer to check licensing on the scanners. Some are > free for > personal use, none are free for commercial use. Some like McAfee will > require > a license for each mailbox, others are per-server, others per-domain. > > F-Prot (www.f-prot.com) certainly needs to be mentioned. It's better > than most, > is free for personal use, and has reasonable "per server" pricing for > commercial use. > I thought I had this in there, must have fallen off my list. Thanks. > Trend VirusWall (www.antivirus.com) should be mentioned under both > http and > mail scanner sections. It's linux, but is rock solid under FBSD > emulation. > It's only really viable http option IMO. > Ok, good to know > http://www.pcxperience.org/dgvirus/ should probably be mentioned under > the http > section. It's a dansguardian customization that is the most promising > open > source http scanner I've seen. Still young though, and I haven't > tested on > freebsd. > > http://viralator.loddington.com/ probably needs a mention under http > section as > well. > > http://www.openantivirus.org needs mentioning in all sections. > Nothing there > is production quality IMO, but the exposure can only help. > I'll check these out. thanks. --Larry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message