May you add the Clamav support? They have a good port for windows that works greta and it is FREE.
Thanks Rosario ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jason J. Ellingson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, November 19, 2004 9:20 AM Subject: [xmail] F-Prot vs NAI vs Sophos > For those using my XMail AV filter for Win32, I thought I'd give you an > update on AV testing... > > I've been testing F-Prot, McAfee, and Sophos for a couple weeks now and > after several thousands of emails we have a definite winner... > > F-Prot is by far the fastest. It scans emails in 200-300ms. It hasn't > missed a single virus (I update the virus sigs hourly) and uses the least > amount of computer resources. > > NAI's McAfee is quite a bit slower. It scans emails in 800-1000ms. It > hasn't missed a single virus either (I update the virus sigs hourly). It > also catches a lot of the fraud emails (bank phishing scams). It is a > heavy > resource user. > > Sophos is about the same speed as McAfee. It scans emails in 800-900ms. > It > has missed two viruses (double zipped files -- the other two av's caught). > And it is a medium resource user. > > In summary, they all work fine, but if you haven't put your money in one > yet, I'd use F-Prot. > > As for claims that some viruses aren't caught by F-Prot, it appears that > it > doesn't try to get specific too much about the virus names... so it may > catch Bagle.AT and call it Bagle.AQ as the code difference wasn't enough > for > them to bother... I don't know why, as their other products will bother > telling you it is a slightly different virus. > > I'm sure that it is possible for F-Prot/McAfee to miss one and Sophos to > catch it... I'm sure I don't get every virus in the wild... but these are > what my logs show and thought it'd might help some of you smaller users > who > don't get enough emails to test. > > XMail-AV will be released again (V1.3) this weekend with logging as a new > feature. > XMail-SpamC will be released (V1.0) this weekend and will support both > just > "tagging" and if you use XMail-WAI, will move the email into the user's > "spambox" based on score. > ------------------------------------------------------------ > Jason J Ellingson > Technical Consultant > > 615.301.1682 : nashville > 612.605.1132 : minneapolis > > www.ellingson.com > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe xmail" in > the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For general help: send the line "help" in the body of a message to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe xmail" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For general help: send the line "help" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
