Date: Thu, 6 Dec 2001 06:11:19 +0100 From: "Anthony Atkielski" <anthony@freebie.atkielski.com> To: "Mike Tancsa" <mike@sentex.net>, "KD Computers - Adam" <adam@kdcomputers.com> Cc: <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: McAfee VirusScan for FreeBSD Message-ID: <007a01c17e14$71a99770$0a00000a@atkielski.com> References: <GDELKMOLJCHICOIJNDJGMEEACAAA.adam@kdcomputers.com> <p9tt0u0v14t1mei7k81vusb9lomurii37h@4ax.com>
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Are virus scanners really worth the effort on FreeBSD? Just don't open e-mail attachments in Outlook (and you can't run Outlook on UNIX, anyway, so how could you ever do that?), and you'll be fine. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mike Tancsa" <mike@sentex.net> To: "KD Computers - Adam" <adam@kdcomputers.com> Cc: <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Sent: Thursday, December 06, 2001 05:37 Subject: Re: McAfee VirusScan for FreeBSD > > Its sad to say that this was such an exercise in frustration for me. I > finally managed to buy the package from a local distributor (now out of > business). The version on the retail CD was out of date. I thought no big > deal, just use the .dat files with the new version from the ftp site.... > Well, no luck as they are not compatible. I called NAI and they said they > would send me out the updated CD. Got it a 2 weeks later and it was the > same CD as I had bought :-( I called back and nothing since then. In the > end, I just didnt bother to use the CD version and continued to use the > eval. > > ---Mike > > On Wed, 5 Dec 2001 15:09:02 -0600, in sentex.lists.freebsd.questions you > wrote: > > >Hello, > > > >Currently I'm using McAfee VirusScan for FreeBSD to scan my incoming email, > >but how would I go about licensing it? I have contacted McAfee directly, > >but nobody seems to even know what FreeBSD is, let alone that McAfee makes > >anything for a un*x platform. > > > >All I need is just a single user version, nothing fancy, as all I'm doing is > >the email, nothing more. Any ideas? > > > >Any help would be greatly appreciated! Thanks in advance for your time. > > > >Adam > > > > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > >with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > Mike Tancsa (mdtancsa@sentex.net) > Sentex Communications Corp, > Waterloo, Ontario, Canada > "Given enough time, 100 monkeys on 100 routers > could setup a national IP network." (KDW2) > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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