RE: Recommendation for "antivirus" software (MTA is qmail)

From: Marc G. Fournier (scrappy_at_hub.org)
Date: 01/30/04

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    Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2004 22:18:30 -0400 (AST)
To: Troy Settle <troy@psknet.com>

    On Thu, 29 Jan 2004, Troy Settle wrote:

    >
    > Andy,
    >
    > I take exception to your statements. I fit neither under A nor B.
    >
    > I figured it like this... I could spend $35k/year + to hire a postmaster to
    > keep up the spam/virus battle on our mail server, or I could pay Postini
    > less than $10k/year to do the same.

    I take exception to this ... I run >150 seperate mail servers, each
    configured either with/without anti-spam/virus software on it, and spend
    *maybe* an hour a month worrying about it. Anti-virus signatures are all
    auto-updated (in my case, 4 times a day), and anti-spam software doesn't
    change that often ... 

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Marc G. Fournier           Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub.org)
Email: scrappy@hub.org           Yahoo!: yscrappy              ICQ: 7615664
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