From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Dec 5 21:11:42 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from freebie.atkielski.com (ASt-Lambert-101-2-1-14.abo.wanadoo.fr [193.251.59.14]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8BAFD37B417 for ; Wed, 5 Dec 2001 21:11:37 -0800 (PST) Received: from contactdish (contactdish.atkielski.com [10.0.0.10]) by freebie.atkielski.com (8.11.3/8.11.3) with SMTP id fB65BJx03417; Thu, 6 Dec 2001 06:11:19 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from anthony@freebie.atkielski.com) Message-ID: <007a01c17e14$71a99770$0a00000a@atkielski.com> From: "Anthony Atkielski" To: "Mike Tancsa" , "KD Computers - Adam" Cc: References: Subject: Re: McAfee VirusScan for FreeBSD Date: Thu, 6 Dec 2001 06:11:19 +0100 Organization: Anthony's Home Page (development site) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4522.1200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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" To: "KD Computers - Adam" Cc: 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 The version on the retail CD was out of date.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