From owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jun 12 12:18:44 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3245137B401 for ; Thu, 12 Jun 2003 12:18:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: from cecov.masternet.it (cecov.masternet.it [194.184.65.7]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C3BF943F85 for ; Thu, 12 Jun 2003 12:18:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gmarco@scotty.masternet.it) Received: from usul.scotty.masternet.it (freebsd.giovannelli.com [194.184.65.139]) by cecov.masternet.it (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id h5CJL9NX025450; Thu, 12 Jun 2003 21:21:09 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from gmarco@scotty.masternet.it) Message-Id: <5.2.1.1.2.20030612211700.02ecd2a8@194.184.65.7> X-Sender: gmarco@194.184.65.7 (Unverified) X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.2.1 Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2003 21:21:10 +0200 To: Bill Moran From: Gianmarco Giovannelli In-Reply-To: <3EE8C7FB.7040701@potentialtech.com> References: <5.2.1.1.2.20030612202321.02e28008@194.184.65.4> <5.2.1.1.2.20030612202321.02e28008@194.184.65.4> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed cc: chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Antivirus for (mailservers on) FreeBSD X-BeenThere: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Non technical items related to the community List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2003 19:18:44 -0000 At 12/06/2003, Bill Moran wrote: >Gianmarco Giovannelli wrote: >>I was a very happy RAV antivirus (by Gecad) user, a former free company >>that produced a very good, IMHO, antivirus. >>Http://www.ravantivirus.com >>Now RAV was acquired by Microsoft and they'll discontinue all the non >>Windows products. >>This is the email they are sending to the customer asking informations. >> > >On the flip side, we replaced Kaspersky with Sophos and it has been >working wonderfully. Sophos likes to brag about being the fastest to >respond to new threats and my experience with them validates that claim. >It's also fast and reliable. I have used sophos a lot before RAV, but I didn't like to much the following points: 1) the scanner has to be used with amavis, which was obviusly so far slow than the dedicated RAV engine. I think they have a dedicated smtp version, but I don't know if they support FreeBSD natively. 2) the upgrades are good for the single "ide" idea, but are a little pain when you have to change the entire database (monthly based) because you have to rely on manual procedure (sh scripts) to update it. But it was a lot of times ago, perhaps now things are changed. Can you explain how you use it ? Do you use amavis to do the wrapper ? Best Regards, Gianmarco Giovannelli , "Unix expert since yesterday" http://www.gufi.org/~gmarco