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Date:      Fri, 6 Sep 2002 16:04:08 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Jerry Murdock <jerry_murdock@yahoo.com>
To:        Jerry Murdock <jerry_murdock@yahoo.com>, Lawrence Sica <lomifeh@earthlink.net>, freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG
Cc:        freebsd-doc@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Anti-virus section for FAQ
Message-ID:  <20020906230408.22167.qmail@web14610.mail.yahoo.com>

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--- Jerry Murdock <jerry_murdock@yahoo.com> wrote:
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Lawrence Sica" <lomifeh@earthlink.net>
> To: <freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG>
> Cc: <freebsd-doc@freebsd.org>
> Sent: Friday, September 06, 2002 2:23 PM
> Subject: Fwd: Anti-virus section for FAQ
> 
> > Oops, helps if I post the url eh ;)
> > 
> > http://www.thesicafamily.org/larry/articles/avfaq.html
> > 
> > Sorry about that.
> > 
> 
> I'd add a disclaimer to check licensing on the scanners.  Some are free for
> personal use, none are free for commercial use.  Some like McAfee will
> require
> a license for each mailbox, others are per-server, others per-domain.
> 
> F-Prot (www.f-prot.com) certainly needs to be mentioned. It's better than
> most,
> is free for personal use, and has reasonable "per server" pricing for
> commercial use. 
> 
> Trend VirusWall (www.antivirus.com) should be mentioned under both http and
> mail scanner sections. It's linux, but is rock solid under FBSD emulation. 
> It's only really viable http option IMO.  
> 
> http://www.pcxperience.org/dgvirus/ should probably be mentioned under the
> http
> section.  It's a dansguardian customization that is the most promising open
> source http scanner I've seen.  Still young though, and I haven't tested on
> freebsd.
> 
> http://viralator.loddington.com/ probably needs a mention under http section
> as
> well. 
> 
> http://www.openantivirus.org needs mentioning in all sections.  Nothing there
> is production quality IMO, but the exposure can only help.
> 

Almost forgot, NOD32 deserves mention as well www.nod32.com.

Jerry



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