Dear list, Here is a summary of the responses on my question as promised.
The respondents told me that we are paying way too much for the virus scanner on the mail gateway. This is because we are paying on a per e-mail address basis instead of using a server license. Server licenses are much cheaper, they vary between Eur 500 - 600 It does not matter which virus scanner we choose, F-secure, Symantec, Sophos to name a few. However, most respondents are really a fan of Avira, see http://www.avira.com/ The website notes a price of approximately Eur 320. The AMaViS project people just build the SAVAPI support for Avira in AMaViS. It is available in amavis-2.7.0-pre* and extremely fast. It seems that Avira belongs to one of the best scanners on the market. We are going to have a look at it! Cheers, Harrie -----Original Message----- From: Overdijk, H. (Harrie) [mailto:overd...@ecn.nl] Sent: maandag 15 november 2010 13:44 To: amavis-user@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [AMaViS-user] Cheap commercial virusscanner to use with AMaViS inbusiness environment. Dear list, The Energy Research Foundation of the Netherlands will receive substantial less money from the government next year. I have been asked to look for a cheaper commercial AV-scanner. At the moment we run AMaViS with Kaspersky AV for Mail Server and ClamAV on our mail gateway together with SpamAssassin. ECN does not allow us to run freeware mail AV scanners only, so we need a commercial virus scanner together with ClamAV. We have a Kaspersky license for 1500 mail addresses and that costs us EUR 13.000 per year. Next year we plan to run 2 load balancing mail servers on a ESX server as a virtual machines. That means the license costs will double... That is too much. My question to you that also runs AMaViS with AV scanners in a business environment is simple, what do you use as commercial virus scanner and how much does it costs. Please reply to me personally to avoid clobbering the list with a non-AMaViS issue. I will summarize the responses. Cheers, Harrie ********************************************************************* This message may contain information that is not intended for you. If so, you are requested to immediately inform the sender and delete the message. This e-mail is not intended to create a legally binding commitment and ECN accepts no liability for damage of any kind resulting from the risks inherent to the electronic transmission of messages. ECN, Dutch CoC number: 41151233 ********************************************************************* ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Beautiful is writing same markup. Internet Explorer 9 supports standards for HTML5, CSS3, SVG 1.1, ECMAScript5, and DOM L2 & L3. Spend less time writing and rewriting code and more time creating great experiences on the web. Be a part of the beta today http://p.sf.net/sfu/msIE9-sfdev2dev _______________________________________________ AMaViS-user mailing list AMaViS-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/amavis-user Please visit http://www.ijs.si/software/amavisd/ regularly For administrativa requests please send email to rainer at openantivirus dot org
