[nycbug-talk] windows anti-virus suggestions

Mikel King mikel.king
Tue Jan 24 14:24:52 EST 2006


On Jan 24, 2006, at 2:14 PM, Brad Schonhorst wrote:

>
>
> On 1/24/06, Isaac Levy <ike at lesmuug.org> wrote:
> Hey All,
>
> On Jan 24, 2006, at 1:35 PM, Jonathan wrote:
>
> >
> > On windows machines I've really liked using Sophos - they're
> > proactive, up-to the minute, and catch things the bulk of other  
> virus
> > scanners miss (ie symantec).
> >
> > They make you pay for it though -- from what I remember, its not
> > cheap.  But if you get  the small business license you can run their
> > linux/bsd daemon on your server for email etc.
>
> As an aside, Sophos seems to own ActiveState, who I know to be huge
> financial supporters in the Python community...  Brownie points, for
> sure :)
>
>
> If you go with Sophos and are planning to do any type of enterprise  
> management, plan on running it from a windows server.   They can  
> support mac clients but we ran into issues trying to host the CID  
> on a os x server.
>
>

Besides clamavd comes preinstalled under Tiger Server.
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