Re: AntiVirus Software

[chuck <fwwiz () yerkes com>]

Quoting Robert Driscoll (driscoll_r () primesource com):
>       Hopefully this message is not an inappropriate for this list, if
> so, please discard.
>
>       This question revolves more around Virus Scanning than firewalling.
> But since the scanner will talk directly to the firewall, I would like any
> input you may wish to elicit.

CVP is a Checkpoint Protocol.  It's there, it's supported.  It will
likely be supplanted in the nearish future by something with more "buy
in" from vendors.  Trying a while ago to get a Checkpoint CLIENT going
was a pain.  The SDK focusses on helping you write servers, which makes
sense from Checkpoint's POV, but hard if you want to hack sendmail to
send mail to a scanner.

Trend runs on a Unix box.  I like that.  I'd rather have an 8-way unix
box running like hell than 16 NT boxes.  I believe a couple of AV
vendors are aiming at Unix implementations by end of year for similiar
reasons - it just scales better.

Don't blame Compaq for dropping Alpha/NT support.  Let's recall MIPS
and PowerPC/NT and look at the fact that getting MS to do reasonable
multiplatform support has always been marginal.  I know the MS folks
developing for MIPS (at the time) LOVED it.  A much better architecture
than x86.

But Trend on non-NT works, according to customers I've worked with.
Longer term (6 months) there will be lots of options, so if you
implement a 'test period' and get some stuff in, you'll buy some time.

chuck