[Mimedefang] Best free antivirus

[David F. Skoll]

On Tue, 23 Sep 2003, Håkon Nilsen (Exinet AS) wrote:

> I wouldn't rely on free antivirus to be honest. There are new viruses every
> day, and only the big companys can supply you with the latest virus
> definitions.

Really?

We have a large CanIt customer whose daily mail volume is around 400K
messages, of which about 120K are viruses.  They use a commercial
virus scanner.

If this customer had blocked all dangerous extensions (exe, pif, bat,
etc), plus the specific filename "message.zip", guess how many viruses
would have slipped through if they hadn't also used the commercial
virus scanner.

Answer: zero.

Regards,

David.