On Sun, 1 May 2005 03:19:13 +0100, Matt Fretwell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Tim Boyer wrote: > >> I'm running 3.0.3 on a couple of mail servers. >> >> Here's the nice thing about Symantec. I've got it set up on a central >> server. It polls the Symantec virus server, pushes the results down >> to the user's desktops, and updates. Without any user intervention. > > The download and push can be done on the server via a script. > > >> Since I can't rely on the users to click on the button that says 'For >> God's sake, you idiot, click this to update your antivirus', I need to >> find some other solution. So far, Symantec's provided it. > > As far as I remember, ( not for love nor money do I touch Windoze >machines these days :), Windows has scheduling and logon scripts, does it >not? Your criterion seem to be easily met by methods already available on >both platforms. > I'll admit to a bit of lazy. I'd love to have a commerrcial Linux product that I could deploy, without having to spend time writing scripts. The one thing I'm short on is time. > BTW, are you referring to AV or spam products? Your replies seem a bit >schizophrenic regarding that point :) > I started off in a clamav thread. Someone tossed out SpamAssassin. I'm not quite sure why. :) I'm pretty comfortable with our spam stuff. Sendmail Switch, MIMEdefang, SpamAssassin, clamav. This is about user antivirus. > >> But I'd _much_, much rather have an Linux product that'll do the >> same. > > You already have, whatever the product. > > If there is something you cannot do on a *nix machine, it obviously isn't >worth doing :) > > Well, absolutely. Look, given enough tiime, and enough O'Reilly books, I could sit down and write something that would push the definitions to the 'doze boxen, and run a scan, etc. I was just curious if there was any commercial - commercial, as in 'I'll pay money for it' - Linux product that could do what Symantec was doing. -- Tim Boyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ http://lurker.clamav.net/list/clamav-users.html
