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Date:      Mon, 9 Sep 2002 17:49:15 -0700
From:      Jim Mock <mij@soupnazi.org>
To:        Lawrence Sica <lomifeh@earthlink.net>
Cc:        "Nickolay A. Kritsky" <nkritsky@internethelp.ru>, freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Anti-virus section for FAQ
Message-ID:  <20020910004915.GA44779@soupnazi.org>
In-Reply-To: <D69EFB6A-C417-11D6-8C5E-000393A335A2@earthlink.net>
References:  <318821464.20020909160529@internethelp.ru> <D69EFB6A-C417-11D6-8C5E-000393A335A2@earthlink.net>

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On Mon, 09 Sep 2002 at 13:16:11 -0400, Lawrence Sica wrote:
> On Monday, September 9, 2002, at 08:05  AM, Nickolay A. Kritsky wrote:
> >Friday, September 06, 2002, 10:23:43 PM, you wrote: LS> Oops, helps
> >if I post the url eh ;)
> >
> >LS> http://www.thesicafamily.org/larry/articles/avfaq.html
> >
> >I would like to add to this list following AV solution: "Procmail
> >Email Sanitizer" -
> >http://www.impsec.org/email-tools/procmail-security.html
> >
> >To comment the FAQ itself. I do not think that just the list of
> >antivirus packages is a good answer for FAQ. The thing is, that
> >freqentissimus AV-related question sounds like "What is the best AV
> >for freebsd/sendmail/qmail?" not just "What kind of antiviruses do
> >you know?". I think, that it would be truly useful if people, who
> >have an experience with setting up AV on FreeBSD share their
> >knowledge with us in the manner like this:
> 
> The goes beyond the purpose of the FAQ tho, it was meant to be a short
> list of possible software out there.  More information would be suited
> more towards a handbook information.  To do that for every package
> would make it a seperate FAQ.  I had planned on a more in depth
> article as well, but for the FAQ a short, simple list is best imho.
> Other opinions?  This list is meant to be an unbiased bit on what is
> out there, not an in depth review and rating of each package..

What about expanding it and adding it to the handbook's email chapter
instead of the FAQ?  I think it's probably better suited there anyway...

- jim

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jim mock <mij@soupnazi.org>                            jim@FreeBSD.org

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