[Mimedefang] Notice: Dropping support for RAV AntiVirus

[David Prestwich]

That's allright, we tried ravav and it blew!  I give em 3 months before 
it will install itself on a windows machine via a microsoft security 
update for something like IE or media player.


David F. Skoll wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> Just a note that MIMEDefang 2.34 FINAL will no longer have RAV antivirus
> support.  There are two reasons for this:
> 
> 1) RAV antivirus has a very restrictive license agreement that could
> be interpreted as forbidding integration with software like MIMEDefang.
> 
> 2) Microsoft has purchased the makers of RAV
> (http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/06/10/HNmsantivirus_1.html) and
> is unlikely to maintain the Linux/UNIX versions of RAV antivirus anyway.
> 
> --
> David.
> 
> 
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