[plug] Preferred virus engines for amavis

Andrew Howell andrew at it.net.au
Thu Oct 9 11:34:47 WST 2003


We use F-Secure, it's around $500 Australian for a license for a linux
server, unlimited users.

Andrew

On Thu, 2003-10-09 at 11:05, Scott Middleton wrote:
> On Thu, 2003-10-09 at 10:49, Jeremy Malcolm wrote:
> > What are peoples' preferred virus engines for use with amavis?  I have
> > used McAfee in the past but their licensing terms are so obscure that they
> > don't seem to know how much they expect me to pay and how frequently.  It
> > would be an advantage to use a product that you could license locally and
> > for a predictable (and not extortionate) cost at predictable intervals. 
> > 
> I had the same problem with Mcafee, in the end i was buying the Virus
> Scan Suite with perpetual licenses as this was the only way they said i
> could legitimately use the uvscan for Amavis. 
> 
> After the thread last week i started looking at f-prot. 
> It comes as a Debian binary, installed with no dependencies in woody.
> Also comes with its own update script which works well and they provide
> you with a free trial version. The price it seems is $299UD for up to 25
> users. I have been testing it for here for a week now. 
> 
> Regards
-- 
Andrew Howell
Director
Informed Technology
E-mail: andrew at it.net.au
Ph: 08 9380 4244  Fax: 08 9380 4354

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