On Friday, September 6, 2002, at 06:30 PM, Jerry Murdock wrote:

> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Lawrence Sica" <lomifehearthlink.net>
> To: <freebsd-securityFreeBSD.ORG>
> Cc: <freebsd-docfreebsd.org>
> Sent: Friday, September 06, 2002 2:23 PM
> Subject: Fwd: Anti-virus section for FAQ
>
>> Oops, helps if I post the url eh ;)
>>
>> http://www.thesicafamily.org/larry/articles/avfaq.html
>>
>> Sorry about that.
>>
>
> I'd add a disclaimer to check licensing on the scanners. Some are
> free for
> personal use, none are free for commercial use. Some like McAfee will
> require
> a license for each mailbox, others are per-server, others per-domain.
>
> F-Prot (www.f-prot.com) certainly needs to be mentioned. It's better
> than most,
> is free for personal use, and has reasonable "per server" pricing for
> commercial use.
>
I thought I had this in there, must have fallen off my list. Thanks.

> Trend VirusWall (www.antivirus.com) should be mentioned under both
> http and
> mail scanner sections. It's linux, but is rock solid under FBSD
> emulation.
> It's only really viable http option IMO.
>

Ok, good to know

> http://www.pcxperience.org/dgvirus/ should probably be mentioned under
> the http
> section. It's a dansguardian customization that is the most promising
> open
> source http scanner I've seen. Still young though, and I haven't
> tested on
> freebsd.
>
> http://viralator.loddington.com/ probably needs a mention under http
> section as
> well.
>
> http://www.openantivirus.org needs mentioning in all sections.
> Nothing there
> is production quality IMO, but the exposure can only help.
>

I'll check these out. thanks.

--Larry

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