We run McAfee on all our UNIX systems here at Honeywell. Works really slick. I created a wrapper script that check for updates on a ftp server and downloads them if necessary. McAfee has clients for more versions of UNIX that all have worked really well. On Wed, 24 Sep 2003, Adam Maloney wrote: > I've given kudos to McAfee on the list before, I think. > > We run their FreeBSD version on multiple machines, scanning e-mail, and > love it. > > The licensing in our scenario was extremely cheap, with support/updates. > > As for trust - I trust them because they are a big name in A/V software > (with a few others that I trust). I trust that I will get timely DAT > updates because there are people that take a paycheck to actually do so. > > I trust them enough to run a pre-compiled binary as root, and on my > network that's a lot of trust. Akin to giving your parents a spare set of > keys to your house, despite the fact that mom likes to "drop in" > unannounced, and there's always a chance that you're shaggin' up with the > wifey, with Mark Knofler's "What It Is" blaring in the background (why > yes, it is a short song), and she comes in and is like, "hello? is anyone > home? What's that squeaking sound? And how did you book Mark Knofler?" > Then you go downstairs, with half your shirt buttons undone, and the other > half off-by-two, and have to get rid of her. > > Yeah, it's kind of like that...I imagine... _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list