[ILUG] Re: anti-virus scanning

[ger.donohue at teleca.ie]

> > > The virus scanner I chose was McAfee Virus Scan for UNIX/Linux, but there
> > >  are quite a few others to choose from.
> >
> > Problem here is that reading the license.txt file you require a license
> > for every user who connects to this machine. I talked to Priority Data
> > with regard to this and that is every every email address you store mail
> > for. So 20 Email address would cost ?1400 for a 2 Year Subscription
> > License.
> >
> > It is definetly not anywhere near Amavis Scanner. Even the old Bash
> > version (which I am still running !!).
>
>  You're comparing apples and oranges. Amavis _requires_ a virus scanner,
>  such as McAfee, or one of the dozen or so others we support.
>
>  While we're at it, I don't really recommend the old bash version of
>  amavis anymore, and we have officially stopped supporting it.
>
>  The latest amavisd (preliminary) snapshot supports Sophie and Trophie,
>  custom-daemons that use the Sophos and Trend (resp.) anti-virus APIs.
>  This way, the virus engine and definitions are kept in memory, and one
>  doesn't run the command line scanner for every mail message.
>

Maybe I quoted the article out of context. The impression I got from it,
was that it  was a low budget solution for a mid sized business and
would only require one license for the system on whish his shell script
was running. I just was trying to point out that this is not the case
with McAfee virus scanner. This would also apply to Amavis.

On the upgrade. An hour after I posted last message Win32/Aliz slipped
through. Looking like an upgrade is required now.

Regards Ger