From owner-freebsd-doc Fri Sep 6 16: 4:15 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E105537B401 for ; Fri, 6 Sep 2002 16:04:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: from web14610.mail.yahoo.com (web14610.mail.yahoo.com [216.136.224.242]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 5AC7B43E4A for ; Fri, 6 Sep 2002 16:04:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jerry_murdock@yahoo.com) Message-ID: <20020906230408.22167.qmail@web14610.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [66.156.9.130] by web14610.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Fri, 06 Sep 2002 16:04:08 PDT Date: Fri, 6 Sep 2002 16:04:08 -0700 (PDT) From: Jerry Murdock Subject: Re: Anti-virus section for FAQ To: Jerry Murdock , Lawrence Sica , freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org --- Jerry Murdock wrote: > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Lawrence Sica" > To: > Cc: > 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 __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Finance - Get real-time stock quotes http://finance.yahoo.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message