[nycbug-talk] windows anti-virus suggestions

[George Georgalis]

On Tue, Jan 24, 2006 at 10:27:09AM -0800, pete wright wrote:
>On 1/24/06, George Georgalis <george at galis.org> wrote:
>> On Tue, Jan 24, 2006 at 01:05:35PM -0500, Dan Langille wrote:
>> >On 24 Jan 2006 at 12:55, Isaac Levy wrote:
>> >
>> >> With some recent fun in an office I'm working at, I'm shopping around
>> >> for a good anti-virus software to use on a fistfull of windows machines.
>> >>
>> >> Does anyone on this list have any good recommendations for products/
>> >> services?
>> >
>> >AVG - http://www.grisoft.com/
>> >
>> >I use http://www.grisoft.com/doc/289/lng/us/tpl/tpl01
>>
>> I thought everyone used clamav.net I think it's perl
>> but I'm not sure if it runs _on_ windows machines.
>>
>
>i don't think it run's under windows (which may be a good thing) but
>you can always export your volumes that users are allowed to write to
>and have a dedicated *BSD box scan that.

I never really understood the scan volumes feature, I'd say scan
before exchange... but maybe people download viruses other ways, I
cannot imagine them not getting opened before a scan if they where
downloaded by IE

// George


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