Re: Exchange Server Virus Scanning

["Hall, Rand" <rand () MERRIMACK EDU>]

> I guess you just pick your individual incident and you
> can make any of them seem good.

> It surprises me that with so many good and competing
> products out there, large institutions seem blinkered
> into considering only 2 or 3 Big Names.  In just about
> all the comparisons I've ever seen, the "big three"
> seldom are the best performers.


Mmmm, I think you may have missed the point. That being, speedy updates
are not always as relevant as you might think.


Cheers,
Rand


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-----Original Message-----
From: Graham Toal [mailto:gtoal () UTPA EDU] 
Sent: Friday, February 17, 2006 11:09 AM
To: SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU
Subject: Re: [SECURITY] Exchange Server Virus Scanning

 
> **Well, not really. If you look closely at av-test.org's 
> study you'll note that McAfee actually beat Kaspersky and 
> Sophos (everyone, actually) in first providing an update to 
> customers with their beta version at 21:19--thirty-eight 
> minutes ahead of Kaspersky.

That's real interesting because av-test.org do the testing
for PC Welt, but in this article:
  http://www.pcwelt.de/news/sicherheit/111012/index2.html
Clamav beat McAffee by 5 hours :-)  In fact McAffee ranked
16th out of 20.

I guess you just pick your individual incident and you can
make any of them seem good.

A more long-term evaluation is described here:

   http://www.linuxpipeline.com/166400446

These guys have no axe to grind, and came out strongly in favour
of Clamav.

For some reason the PC Welt article above did not test the
commercial product, NOD32.  I've heard some good things about
it as well.  It surprises me that with so many good and competing
products out there, large institutions seem blinkered into
considering only 2 or 3 Big Names.  In just about all the comparisons
I've ever seen, the "big three" seldom are the best performers.


Graham