[Mimedefang] Which AV package are most people using with MimeDefang?

[Don 'Duck' Harper]

On Wed, 2002-10-23 at 10:11, David F. Skoll wrote:
> On Wed, 23 Oct 2002, Nels Lindquist wrote:
> 
> > You might want to look at H+BEDV Antivir (http://www.hbedv.com).
> 
> Has anyone tried this experiment?
> 
> - Install ClamAV with the clamd daemon and freshclam.
> - Block all the dangerous extensions with MD.
> - Wait a month or two and see if *anything* gets past that would have
>   been trapped by a commercial virus scanner.
> 
> I have my doubts.  I think the (commercial) virus-scanning industry is
> a big ripoff, and MD's default filter in combination with clamd is
> probably every bit as good as a commercial package.

I manage two different sites w/ MD+ClamAV+SA.  So far, I am hitting 100%
with one site (small home site w/ about 15 users in 8 domains)...ClamAV
is working like a champ, and has caught everything I know about.  

The other site is at my office, and aside from a slight install issue w/
ClamAV, it has caught all but one virus coming in (that one would have
been caught if I had made sure the signature db had been updating
correctly. :)

So, if you have 100% control on your MUA in your network and can lock
them down to only use your mail servers protected by MD+ClamAV+SA, and
disallow web traffic, I feel you do not need the commercial packages. 
Oh, and running something besides OL or OLE helps. :)

But, in the real world, you do not have 100% control of your MUAs, and
most places do allow web surfing, so I feel that having a good AV
product on the desktops is needed.  And, since 95% of my users use W2K,
that means a commercial AV product here.

Don

-- 
Don Harper, RHCE, MCSE                          email: duck at duckland.org
Just a systems kinda guy...                      http://www.duckland.org

		   Gods R Us--how may you serve us?

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