I do not address the license problem, but rather the utility of a n antivirus for e-mail . Such beast hogs the server, and give a false sense of safety to user. I feel better 1. delegate to end user, i do not use AV , i nearly always use win, i receive about 500 messages per day, but never got a virus installed in my computer. 2. if you cannot trust completely your user use a resident antivirus on ws, at least this would hog their machine, not the server ! 3. if the virus is new option 2 could not work, but even the server one could fail, more difficult with option 1. provide a good debugger to your user.
On 10 Jun 2003 at 9:43, Tomās Núņez Lirola wrote: > Hi > I want to put an antivirus on the mail server (BugBear helped me to convince > my boss). Now is time for wondering about licenses. > > Kaspersky and F-Prot (two examples) have a product for a mail server. If I use > their product for a personal use (wich license price is a 5% of the mail > server license) with amavis, am I doing something illegal? Does the license > permit its use with amavis? > I need to know it for sure... so can anyone help me? > > However, the open alternatives (clamav, openantivirus, etc) are stable enough? > They get updated fast enough? -- Leonardo Boselli Nucleo Informatico e Telematico del Dipartimento Ingegneria Civile Universita` di Firenze , V. S. Marta 3 - I-50139 Firenze tel +39 0554796431 cell +39 3488605348 fax +39 055495333 http://www.dicea.unifi.it/~leo
