From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jun 15 14:33:54 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3199E37B401 for ; Sun, 15 Jun 2003 14:33:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pa-plum1b-166.pit.adelphia.net (pa-plum1b-217.pit.adelphia.net [24.53.161.217]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5E87843FAF for ; Sun, 15 Jun 2003 14:33:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wmoran@potentialtech.com) Received: from potentialtech.com (working [172.16.0.95]) h5FLXqOg004402; Sun, 15 Jun 2003 17:33:52 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from wmoran@potentialtech.com) Message-ID: <3EECE640.20308@potentialtech.com> Date: Sun, 15 Jun 2003 17:33:52 -0400 From: Bill Moran User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.3) Gecko/20030429 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Martin Schweizer References: <200306120117.IAA23379@bazooka.cs.ait.ac.th> <3EE7DC5B.3090701@potentialtech.com> <20030615164624.GA9883@saturn.pcs.ms> In-Reply-To: <20030615164624.GA9883@saturn.pcs.ms> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: * FreeBSD AntiVirus Solutions * X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 15 Jun 2003 21:33:54 -0000 Martin Schweizer wrote: > Hello Bill > > I've read your posting about Sophos and FreeBSD. I'm also interessted about > it. How do you use it: on clients, on servers or on mail servers? Currently we're only using it as a mail server solution, via Amavis. The cost of the individual client setups has convinced all our clients to go with something cheap, like Norton, so we haven't deployed it to the desktop yet. > > Am Wed, Jun 11, 2003 at 09:50:19PM -0400 Bill Moran schrieb: > >>Olivier Nicole wrote: >> >>>>We have noticed that Kaspersky and Sophos are placed at your web site but >>>>we >>>>wonder if we have any other / new alternatives more then these two SW ? >>> >>>We've been using Kaspersky for more than a year, no problem with the >>>product itself, but the sales team is a bit unresponsive (don't expect >>>them to warn you when you need to renew your licence, had to threaten >>>them to get them replying to me, etc.) >> >>I can't recommend Kaspersky. I had a bad experience with them, the product >>never worked, and they stopped responding to all communications when we >>told them we wanted our money back. Being overseas, there was little we >>could do but bite the bullet. >> >>Sophos has been running ever since then. It's fast and reliable. It's >>definately expensive, but they seem to do a real good job of having up-to- >>date profiles of all viruses. We automatically d/l and install updates >>nightly and have never had a problem. > > -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com