On 8 May 2007 at 16:02, Kevin wrote: > Pardon the delay on this reply.
no probs :) > Those are possible causes however I was referring to the fact that the > scanning engine was changed a few months ago to enable scanning for > more/different types of viruses, the developers themselves admitted that > this introduces a nasty performance hit and they were working on it. > I however have not kept up on the ClamAV development so I can not say > for certain if this has been fixed. The default for recent builds is to enable the anti-phising scan (similar to URIBL), but it can be turned off. > I also base it on the fact that clamd uses around 100% cpu when scanning > a file, however on my exchange server ScanMail uses very little, and I > guarantee that ScanMail scans more messages since you can't tell it not > to scan. Ah, never seen that sort of peak. Sounds suspicious to me. > > >> if you have a > >> large volume of email I would recommend keeping an exchange integrated > >> virus scanner, personally I use Trend Micro at the moment but if I were > >> to building a new server/switch I would definitely go with nod32. > > > > OOI, what would be the reasons for going with NOD? > > Performance, it's not Symantec/Mcafee, I don't like the latest version > of the Trend product, I am throughly impressed with the Nod32 desktop > scanning product, and the vast amount of recommendations I see for it on > other lists. Thanks - useful. paul ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ Assp-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/assp-user
