From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jun 12 19:32:09 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1B3DE37B401 for ; Thu, 12 Jun 2003 19:32:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pa-plum1b-166.pit.adelphia.net (pa-plum1b-217.pit.adelphia.net [24.53.161.217]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5700843FBF for ; Thu, 12 Jun 2003 19:32:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wmoran@potentialtech.com) Received: from potentialtech.com (working [172.16.0.95]) h5D2VbOg002516; Thu, 12 Jun 2003 22:31:39 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from wmoran@potentialtech.com) Message-ID: <3EE93789.7090001@potentialtech.com> Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2003 22:31:37 -0400 From: Bill Moran User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.3) Gecko/20030429 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Olivier Nicole References: <200306120302.KAA23774@bazooka.cs.ait.ac.th> <3EE87740.3040600@potentialtech.com> <200306130214.JAA11522@banyan.cs.ait.ac.th> In-Reply-To: <200306130214.JAA11522@banyan.cs.ait.ac.th> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: Olivier.Nicole@ait.ac.th cc: george@vagner.com cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: * FreeBSD AntiVirus Solutions * X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2003 02:32:09 -0000 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