Hi there
We're a small Swiss hosting provider. Currently we host over 4000 IMAP mail accounts on Debian Linux mail servers (Postfix/Amavis/Spamassassin/ClamAV/Cyrus). As anti-virus solution we are using ClamAV over Amavis (amavisd-new) at the SMTP level.
We are looking for a more professional anti-virus solution and would like to add another anti-virus engine as primary scanner engine. Our favorite is Kaskpersky Anti-Virus for Mailservers but Kaskpersky does not seem to offer any affordable license that would match our business type (KAV for Linux Mail Server for 50(!!!) mail "addresses": CHF 2043/year). Their price model doesn't make any sense for our business. We are ready to pay up to CHF 1000/year for an anti-virus scan engine but not much more than that. ClamAV is not too bad, but the reaction time upon new threats has always been a bit faster in commercial anti-virus solutions. I don't want to start a flame war about this, it's just my personal experience during the last couple of years.
What other solutions are small hosting providers using next to ClamAV? What are you using?
Thanks for your advice! Regards, Philip
On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 5:34 PM, Philip Iezzi philip.iezzi@datenpark.ch wrote:
Hi there
We're a small Swiss hosting provider. Currently we host over 4000 IMAP mail accounts on Debian Linux mail servers (Postfix/Amavis/Spamassassin/ClamAV/Cyrus). As anti-virus solution we are using ClamAV over Amavis (amavisd-new) at the SMTP level.
We are looking for a more professional anti-virus solution and would like to add another anti-virus engine
At an ISP I used to work at (BIT in the Netherlands) we had four scanners on every e-mail: clam, f-prot, sophos and mcafee. All of these ran under Linux and from amavisd. After I left I think perhaps that BIT dropped one or more of those, but in my experience there really were (long tail) virusses that were caught by each engine separately and uniquely so there was benefit to having more than one scanner.
I don't know much about licensing costs, but would offer that this is largely a game of 'being the persuasive customer' when it comes to bulk licensing.
groet, Pim
On 3/1/11 6:57 PM, Pim van Pelt wrote:
On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 5:34 PM, Philip Iezziphilip.iezzi@datenpark.ch wrote:
Hi there
We're a small Swiss hosting provider. Currently we host over 4000 IMAP mail accounts on Debian Linux mail servers (Postfix/Amavis/Spamassassin/ClamAV/Cyrus). As anti-virus solution we are using ClamAV over Amavis (amavisd-new) at the SMTP level.
We are looking for a more professional anti-virus solution and would like to add another anti-virus engine
At an ISP I used to work at (BIT in the Netherlands) we had four scanners on every e-mail: clam, f-prot, sophos and mcafee. All of these ran under Linux and from amavisd. After I left I think perhaps that BIT dropped one or more of those, but in my experience there really were (long tail) virusses that were caught by each engine separately and uniquely so there was benefit to having more than one scanner.
I don't know much about licensing costs, but would offer that this is largely a game of 'being the persuasive customer' when it comes to bulk licensing.
groet, Pim
I'm gonna add my 2 cents here also... Why not try Bitdefender ? Here (in Romania) companies which are mostly medium size are using it without major problems. In the past some years ago there were implementation issues or processes hanging but I think it's quite stable at present. Please don't start a flame on this :) Also I don't know the pricing model and if it fits your budget.
Cheers, Mihai
On 01.03.2011 5:34, Philip Iezzi wrote:
What other solutions are small hosting providers using next to ClamAV? What are you using?
We're using Kaspersky on Linux. The scanning engine doesn't add much to the CPU load and it integrates into postfix like a charm. Actually, the setup script does it for you, no need to edit any configuration file manually ;-)
As for the licensing terms, talk to a sales guy. Sometimes you can make marketing-deals like putting the name of the anti-virus vendor into mail-footers and get a kick-back on the license fee etc.. Be creative and you'll get a good deal.
Kind regards, Viktor
Hi Philip
What other solutions are small hosting providers using next to ClamAV? What are you using?
Back in the time Vexira hat a per-domain-Licence for its Vexira Antivirus for Mail Server (VAMS) which was quite competitive compared to other solutions that billed you per mailbox. Maybe it's worth a try.
Regards
Jean-Pierre
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