[Full-Disclosure] Antivirus Software Solutions?

2003-11-27 Thread Nick Price
I'm looking for two pieces of Antivirus software. The first I would like to filter viruses at the NAT/Gateway itself. The platform should be either Linux, BSD, Solaris, or NT. I'm also looking for Antivirus software to use on each of our workstations. We've been using Norton, but I'd like to

[Full-Disclosure] Antivirus Software Solutions?

2003-11-29 Thread Marc Chabot (.net)
PS> Paul Schmehl ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) PS> Furthermore, you don't want just "any reasonable well supported product". PS> You want a product that is highly effective against none viruses. Some PS> that fall in to that category are Sophos, McAfee, Kaspersky and Norton. I had a bad opinion of mc-a-fee

Re: [Full-Disclosure] Antivirus Software Solutions?

2003-11-27 Thread Paul Szabo
Nick Price <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm looking for two pieces of Antivirus software. The first I would like > to filter viruses at the NAT/Gateway itself. The platform should be > either Linux, BSD, Solaris, or NT. I'm also looking for Antivirus > software to use on each of our workstati

RE: [Full-Disclosure] Antivirus Software Solutions?

2003-11-27 Thread Kane Lightowler
Title: RE: [Full-Disclosure] Antivirus Software Solutions? Go for the Trendmicro products Trendmicro Office Scan on the desktops http://www.trendmicro.com/en/products/desktop/osce/evaluate/overview.htm Trendmicro InterScan Messaging Security Suite at the gateway for email scanning

Re: [Full-Disclosure] Antivirus Software Solutions?

2003-11-27 Thread Christopher Allene
Paul Szabo ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote on 2003-11-28 at 12:20: > Once your email gateway is "safe", any AV on desktops becomes much less > important, but you may still want some "traditional" AV on your desktops; > any reasonably well supported product should do. You may also choose to install an AV

Re: [Full-Disclosure] Antivirus Software Solutions?

2003-11-28 Thread Paul Schmehl
--On Friday, November 28, 2003 12:20 PM +1100 Paul Szabo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Do not use "traditional" AV at all (as that would never protect you from the latest virus). Rather, set up your email gateway to "defang" all suspicious emails (e.g. containing EXE or SCR or PIF, or ZIP, attachment

RE: [Full-Disclosure] Antivirus Software Solutions?

2003-11-28 Thread Anthony Aykut
Well put Paul - though it is alarming to see that this starting to happen more and more as people are advised, really *advised*, to follow this avenue, and suffer the consequences. I think to a certain extent until the "architecture of computing" and/or computers as we know changes somewhat, this i

Re: [Full-Disclosure] Antivirus Software Solutions?

2003-11-29 Thread Paul Schmehl
--On Saturday, November 29, 2003 10:12 AM -0500 "Marc Chabot (.net)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I had a bad opinion of mc-a-fee before, but if you say it's highly effective against NONE viruses, I believe you. :-D That's just the modern spelling of known. :-) I'm looking for anybody who had some

Re: [Full-Disclosure] Antivirus Software Solutions?

2003-11-29 Thread Manfred Schmitt
Paul Schmehl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > This is a good first step, but you should also have a/v protection at the > gateway. Look at amavisd and vexira if you're allowed to use open source. Just to clarify things: vexira is'nt open source. For an open source av-scanner take a look at clam

Re: [Full-Disclosure] Antivirus Software Solutions?

2003-11-29 Thread William Warren
I am evaluating Astaro Security Linux: It is a firewall, http proxy and virus gateway(for both pop3 and smtp and uses the kapersky anti-virus engine that can be set to auto-update hourly if you wish)...also it can filter suspicious attachments by file extension you specify. So far i have foun

Re: [Full-Disclosure] Antivirus Software Solutions?

2003-12-09 Thread Michael Gale
Hello, I have never heard of Astaro -- what type of firewall does it provide ? how does it filter http , POP and smtp ? For desktop A/V Etrust has a nice product. For mail -- if you want a commercial product ( some companies require this because then they have "vendor support" -- like a