[PLUG] Re: avg software experience?
Alan
alan at clueserver.org
Sat Feb 12 08:08:41 UTC 2005
On Sat, 2005-02-12 at 00:29 +0000, Wil Cooley wrote:
> On 2005-02-11, Alan <alan at clueserver.org> wrote:
> > On Fri, 2005-02-11 at 12:05 -0800, Paul Johnson wrote:
> >> On Thursday 10 February 2005 10:57 am, Mike De La Mater wrote:
> >> > I'm looking for alternatives to traditional, burdensome, antivirus
> >> > software. Does anyone have experience with AVG at Grisoft .com?
> >>
> >> For Windows, AVG can't be beat. For Linux, ClamAV is a better pick.
> >
> > F-Secure for Linux catches more viruses than ClamAV. (Especially
> > trojans.) Getting it is more of a pain than it should be.
> >
> > ClamAV also has problems with false positives on multi-part rar and zip
> > files. (Claims they are "oversized compressed files". I have had to
> > disable that check on scans.)
>
> Of course, if you want enterprise-class virus protection, you should
> check out Sophos (http://nakedape.cc/products/software/sophos). Sophie
> is a great 3rd party scanner using the Sophos scanning engine that is a
> daemon; I use it in some of my Mail Defender installs.
How much does it cost?
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