[plug] BugBear Virus

[shayne]

Seriously guys. F-PROT site seems to suggest for "small-business" version
the cost is nil.
F-PROT has always worked well for me on windoze platform, and the cmd line
linux scan works charmingly (baring evil debian mailserver install
wierdness,
still havent got it going) so maybe thats the gig.


----- Original Message -----
From: Craig Ringer <craig at postnewspapers.com.au>
To: <plug at plug.linux.org.au>
Sent: Friday, October 04, 2002 3:11 PM
Subject: Re: [plug] BugBear Virus


> > Had a look at Sophos information a while ago. From memory, it would have
> > cost us about $1,000 a year, or some simialr amount. Too expensive.
>
> Only $1000? Wow. I priced it about 3 months ago and it wasn't at _all_
> pretty. They wanted a per-seat licence fee for each machine that'd be
> recieving mail through the mail server, INCLUDING MacOS and linux boxes.
> Not a small fee, either. On top of that, if I wanted host-local scanning
> on the windoze boxes (to protect against USB Data keys, digital cameras,
> and on the older machines floppy discs and CD-ROMs) it was 2x the price
> of the mail scanning licence. When I suggested that perhaps a discount
> should be offered on host-local licences where the machine is already
> covered by a mail scanning licence, they weren't remotely interested.
>
> > We have a server/gateway and about four client PC's; five systems at
> > present.
>
> Lucky bastard ;-/
> I have to keep a 30+ machine network of Win95 486s, Win98 P100s and
> newer AMD Durons, and MacOS 7 - 9 boxes alive, plus a SCO OpenServer
> server, and NT server and a linux server. _ugly_ esp since we use the 3
> least reliable client OSs ever written (win95, win98, MacOS 9).
>
> Still, I'm actively looking into a linux deployment here - we're one of
> those outfits where it could be worthwhile and the boss is _very_
> interested. Key things we're waiting on:
> the mozilla flash bug fix
> OpenOffice 1.1 (or something less crashy, anyway) unless we go StarOffice
> some brave volunteers to test out the new system.
>
> Amazing how a basically ready system can be held up by the simple
> problem that nobody is game to try it out... despite the fact that I
> have to sit users down at my linux box fairly regularly for various
> reasons.
>
> --
> Craig Ringer
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