Ok agree on that. Maybe we are barking up the wrong tree here. The cause
of all these SirCam HEADACHES these days is not really the virus itself,
but the operating system that allows such virii to proliferate in the
first place. I'm saying, let's get our act together, and come up with a
low cost, linux based, office network so we can be free of such issues
once and for all!
On Sat, 4 Aug 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> creating an excellent anti-virus scan engine is NOT really that difficult.
> creating a pattern file standard to work w/ that scan engines is also not
> that difficult.
> both the above requirements for a GPL'd anti-virus alternative is more than
> doable.
>
> so what's the catch?
> you have to have an army of antivirus specialists who will take in samples,
> analyze them,
> create a test pattern for them, run the test pattern on all known OS and
> hardware combinations
> and finally publish the finished pattern.
>
> also you have to have another army of application programmers to create
> system programs that
> takes advantage of your scan engine and pattern for a variety of platforms.
> and another army
> to support/maintain these programs.
>
> once you have that, i believe there will arise an excellent free anti-virus
> alternative.
> in the meantime, people pay for the services AV companies.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Federico Sevilla III [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Friday, August 03, 2001 9:05 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [plug] Sophos pricing for Amavis-type applications
>
>
> On Fri, 3 Aug 2001 at 20:51, Orlando Andico wrote:
> > If you have 15 workstations, it's $230 per workstation.
>
> Agree. Will have to get back to that Edna Giron about this. Or maybe
> McAfee will be lighter on the pockets? Anyone know of the local
> distributor/reseller/whatever?
>
> It's sad that there seems to be no decent GPL'd anti-virus alternative.
> Maybe because you don't really need it unless you're protecting winblows
> clients.
>
> --> Jijo
>
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