Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2003 14:56:34 -0400 From: Charles Swiger <cswiger@mac.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: antiviruos for FreeBSD mail server ? Message-ID: <FC13FCEB-EF89-11D7-8F9F-003065ABFD92@mac.com> In-Reply-To: <20030925073912.GA33334@freebie.freebsd.org>
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On Thursday, September 25, 2003, at 03:39 AM, Armand Passelac wrote: [ ... ] > In the community, the Vexira Antivirus seems to have a very very good > reputation : http://www.centralcommand.com/vexira_mailarmor_linux.html > > You can see this article for a good anti-virus list : > http://www.tummy.com/articles/VirusScanners Vexira/Central Command has a habit of astroturfing newsgroups and mailing lists attempting to sell their product. They've made deceptive and misleading claims about the performance of their products on comp.mail.sendmail and refused to substantiate them. --- From: Per Hedeland (per@hedeland.org) Subject: Re: Antivirus and sendmail Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail Date: 2002-09-16 16:35:06 PST As I'm sure the faithful readers of this group has noticed, there is some virus protection software called Vexira MailArmor out there. These users have posted one or more articles praising it to the group in the last month: Allen Campbell <a.campbell@usethisspammers.com> Bob Culinski <bobk@SPAMBAIT.halloween.net> Chris Jalowski <cj@SLAM.SPAM.ford.com> George Wilson <gwilson@RE-MO-VE.nyi.com> Henrik Stroemer <hstroemer@fake-address-to-avoid-spam.com> Jason T. Simon <me@privacy.net> Martin TauerBach <awilshire@remove-spam-block.siemens.de> Looking a bit closer at their postings, I noticed a strange coincidence: They all use a newsreader called "MicroPlanet Gravity v2.50". Now, I know nothing about this newsreader, I'm sure it's great - but it doesn't seem very common among the posters to this group. In fact, out of the 2000+ posts currently in my news spool, only 21 were made using it - and strangely enough 15 of those talk about the abovementioned software (a few of them are asking or answering questions about it rather than praising it). Or, put another way - if you want to buy virus protection software from spammers, you know where to find it. --Per Hedeland per@hedeland.org -- forwarded message -- From: "Chuck Swiger" <chuck@codefab.com> Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail Subject: Re: Need to stop viruses from going through Sendmail Date: Thu, 28 Nov 2002 18:27:41 +0000 (UTC) Kelvin Tigg <diespammerdie@spamcop.net> wrote: > Vexira MailArmor is also priced per domain with something like 5-6K > users > included with a standard license. We chose the an unlimited license > for us > though. Sure we looked at rav antivirus and had some issues with it > but I > see no need to discuss all the problems we had with it here. When we > tested > actual performance of the virus scanning Vexira clearly is a true > enterprise class virus scanner for Sendmail. We pumped the test from > 10-100-1000 msg per second and Vexira had no issues with the volume. I > am > not here to persuade you to use anything I am simply posting our > experience > with Vexira and what we found out. My dear astroturfing friend, you should probably read the FTC's rules on advertising and marketing: http://www.ftc.gov/bcp/conline/pubs/buspubs/ruleroad.htm http://www.ftc.gov/bcp/guides/endorse.htm What's going to happen is that you are going to identify the hardware that you tested Vexira with "1000 message per second" throughput, as well as which company you work for, and provide full disclosure of any connections you have with Central Command per section 255.5 "Disclosure of material connections". Or a certain company in Ohio is going to learn something about jurisdiction. Apropos of nothing in particular, if someone was found to have forged endorsements from, say, "Ford Motor Company", they might also learn something about how understanding corporate laywers from large companies are, besides having the FTC asking friendly questions. I look forward to your response, -Chuck Chuck Swiger | chuck@codefab.com | All your packets are belong to us. -------------+-------------------+----------------------------------- "The human race's favorite method for being in control of the facts is to ignore them." -Celia Green
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