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Date:      Thu, 12 Jun 2003 22:31:37 -0400
From:      Bill Moran <wmoran@potentialtech.com>
To:        Olivier Nicole <on@cs.ait.ac.th>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: * FreeBSD AntiVirus Solutions *
Message-ID:  <3EE93789.7090001@potentialtech.com>
In-Reply-To: <200306130214.JAA11522@banyan.cs.ait.ac.th>
References:  <200306120302.KAA23774@bazooka.cs.ait.ac.th> <3EE87740.3040600@potentialtech.com> <200306130214.JAA11522@banyan.cs.ait.ac.th>

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Olivier Nicole wrote:
>>>Sophos (from what they claim) and Kaspersky (to a lesser extend) will
>>>provide updates on the hour basis (I do automatic update every other
>>>hour). That makes a huge difference on th einsecure window.
>>
>>I can vouch for Sophos doing this.  I got an email about the Bugbear-B
>>from Sophos telling me to update my profiles to get protection before
>>I heard about it from anywhere else.
> 
> I recommend that you do some automatic download of update (at least
> once a day). Waiting for the information email may be just a little
> bit too late :))

We automatically update nightly, and manually apply new binarys monthly.

I was just pointing out that Sophos seems to be on top of things.

-- 
Bill Moran
Potential Technologies
http://www.potentialtech.com



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