[MACEP] McAfee Anti-Virus

[Mike Ely]

Ahh, I'm glad you brought that up.  I'm running clamAV on taupehat.com 
as a server-side scanner, and it's been great.  I've had about a dozen 
catches since I set it up about a monnth ago, and, like you, zero false 
positives.  I only wish SpamAssassin had as light a footprint...

Cheers,
Mike

Eric Harrison wrote:
> On Tue, 3 May 2005, Mike Ely wrote:
> 
>> Thomas,
>>
>> You might want to consider other brands.  I've had some unpleasant 
>> experiences with McAfee, and Norton is just a big fat pig where system 
>> resources are concerned.  I've had good experience with F-Prot, and 
>> I'm sure readers here have other brands as well that they like.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Mike
> 
> I'll toss in 2 bytes on a non McAfee/Norton scanner I just started using...
> 
> 
> I use the McAfee unix command line scanner to filter all of our inbound &
> outbound email. Due to a self-inflicted problem with McAfee, on Monday I
> temporarily switched over to using ClamAV (http://www.clamav.net/). I 
> noted that ClamAV didn't require significant resources, so I kept it
> running in series with the McAfee scanner.
> 
> After three days, I'm so-far impressed with ClamAV. Out of the 2,500
> virus quarantined per day, ClamAV detects every single one that
> McAfee does and a couple phishing scam emails to boot. Neither ClamAV
> nor McAfee had a false-positive.
> 
> I've had a couple of people tell me today that they switched over to
> ClamAV on their home Windows machines and are quite happy with it.
> 
> It is also free (GPL) and so are the automatically updated virus
> signature updates. It runs on a number of platforms including Windows,
> OSX, Linux, Solaris, *BSD, AIX, and BeOS.
> 
> On the flip side, it is a fairly young piece of software. The current
> version is 0.84.
> 
> -Eric
> 
>> Thomas Glover wrote:
>>> Until recently I had been using Norton on our home PCs; however, we 
>>> had a difficulty with the recent version and have decided to try 
>>> McAfee (?).
>>>
>>> Questions: 1. Thoughts about McAfee versus Norton (we run one machine 
>>> on Win 98 and the other on XP)?
>>>
>>> 2. I use Firefox as my day-to-day browser; when I tried to download 
>>> McAfee I got an message saying that it, McAfee, worked with IE and to 
>>> open IE. I can understand that one may need IE to download McAfee, 
>>> but does that mean once installed it ONLY works when using IE? Or, 
>>> that it will not work with Firefox?
>>>
>>> 3. When I tired to call McAFee I got a recording saying that the 
>>> number was no longer in service. ??
>>>
>>> Thanks for any info./assistance.
>>>
>>> Thomas Glover
> 
> 

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