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Date:      Sun, 15 Jun 2003 17:33:52 -0400
From:      Bill Moran <wmoran@potentialtech.com>
To:        Martin Schweizer <info@pc-service.ch>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: * FreeBSD AntiVirus Solutions *
Message-ID:  <3EECE640.20308@potentialtech.com>
In-Reply-To: <20030615164624.GA9883@saturn.pcs.ms>
References:  <200306120117.IAA23379@bazooka.cs.ait.ac.th> <3EE7DC5B.3090701@potentialtech.com> <20030615164624.GA9883@saturn.pcs.ms>

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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.
> 
> 


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Bill Moran
Potential Technologies
http://www.potentialtech.com



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