[H-GEN] Virus s/w for Linux/unix.

[Robert Stanford]

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On Wed, 2002-06-12 at 10:22, Robert Brockway wrote:
> [ Humbug *General* list - semi-serious discussions about Humbug and     ]
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> Hi all.  Anyone played with any Linux or generic unix based virus scanning 
> software.  I'd love to hear how the different packages performed.  For 
> reference, the box is running sendmail as an MTA.
> 
> Price is somewhat of an issue here but not insurmountable.

Personaly I think the whole lot of them are blunt razors. The companies
have it in their best interests not to make the products perfect,
prefering to keep people on their tit sucking for more updates.

These days I use a combination of exim and a generic windows executable
attachment filter available on the exim homepage. It also scans for a
few other things like embeded vbs attachments (aka ILOVEYOU), overlength
date field and unquoted filenames.The doze machines run the free edition
of AVG from grisoft.com , be damned if im letting anyone give their hard
earned dollars to fix such a stupid unnecessary problem.

The exim filter has a 100% success rate in terms of not one of the 200
odd users behind it even getting to sniff a virus. Can't say the same
for a single one of the proprietry AV programs out there.

Robert Stanford

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