[Mimedefang] Best free antivirus

[Keith Patton]

I agree!!!

We run Clamav on our mail servers and norton on the desktop.  The combination
works good.

Sometimes Norton gets an update first and sometimes clamav updates first. The
last virus, we got
updates 30min faster with clamav than with norton, likewise the reverse is also
true in some cases.

-Keith



Kenneth Irving wrote:

> On Tue, 23 Sep 2003, Håkon Nilsen (Exinet AS) wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > 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.
>
> This is absolutely not true! It is absolutely impossible for any company
> (big or small) to learn about the existance of any new virus *before* the
> virus hits internet. That is absolutely necessary if you want to have
> virus definitions available in time (and I can only imagine one
> possiblility for that to happen).
>
>  >
> > Of course - if there is a free alternative that's good enough, I think we're
> > all interested to know who they are...
> >
>
> Clamav is good enough. It's available for *any* unix like operating
> system. It's fast and light. And the community support has improved
> considerably during the last year (in fact, for some viruses their
> signature was available even before some comercial antivirus).
>
> It's absolutely impossible for any antivirus software to detect 100% of
> viruses. That's where MIMEDefang does it's job. At least the antivirus
> software lets you know why an attachment was removed. That's all.
>
> best reagrds
>                 Kenneth
>
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