[Maia-users] Suggestions on AV?

[Michiel van den Berg]

We are using mcaffee command line scanner besides clamav for about a
year now, during that time mcaffee only picked up on 3 mails that were
not picked up by clamav. Anyway to give you an answer, amavisd (Maia)
really doesn't care even if you install 10 virus scanners. Ive heard
good experiences with Mcaffee (my own to) and also Sophos.

 

Rgds

 

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Van: maia-users-bounces at renaissoft.com
[mailto:maia-users-bounces at renaissoft.com] Namens Aaron Wolfe
Verzonden: vrijdag 27 juli 2007 3:39
Aan: maia-users at renaissoft.com
Onderwerp: Re: [Maia-users] Suggestions on AV?

 

 

On 7/26/07, Darrick Hartman (lists) <dhartman at djhsolutions.com> wrote:

Aaron Wolfe wrote:
> Hi,
>
> We're using Maia here with ClamAV and haven't had any problems, but
the
> "suits" have recently become concerned that our AV solution isn't
> something we're paying lots of money for.  Can anyone recommend for or

> against any of the various commercial filters that work with
> Maia/Amavisd?  There's an awful lot of them mentioned in the config
> files and I don't really know how to rate them.

Just because it's free doesn't mean it's of lower quality than the 
commercial products.  In this case, I would argue that ClamAV is
superior to many of the commercial products.


This sounds a lot like the conversation I had with my boss shortly
before I made my original post :) 

 

	 

	Some of the comments in this blog may be helpful:
	
	http://blogs.securiteam.com/index.php/archives/329
	
	There are others out there too.  There's no reason (other than
computing
	resources) why you couldn't use two virus scanners (clamav and a
	commercial one). 
	
	I check for new signatures ever couple hours with Clamav and
have seen
	the virus signature file updated more frequently than some of
the
	commercial products.  That in itself doesn't mean it's
necessarily 
	better than the commercial products, but it has just worked for
me as well.



If I am forced to purchase a commercial scanner (which seems likely), I
certainly will be adding it to clamav, not replacing what's worked
perfectly for so long.  I also intend to report on the (highly probable)
situation that our commercial virus scanner has detected absolutely
nothing when it comes time to renew it next year.  

I appreciate and agree with all the pro clamav talk, but assuming I will
have to also have a commercial scanner, I'd still love to hear about any
experiences people have had with them and Maia.

-Aaron 

	 

	Darrick
	--
	Darrick Hartman
	DJH Solutions, LLC
	http://www.djhsolutions.com

 

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