Subj : OS/2 virus scan in BBS
To   : Gord Hannah
From : Mike Luther
Date : Fri Apr 11 2003 07:39 pm

You might add that ..

 GH> I would suggest Mcafee, you get the best of both worlds, a gui 
 GH> interface, and command line.  I can ship you a copy 
 GH> via the internet if you want.  I update mine every 
 GH> week.  It also does LFN with ease.

 SD> I'd recommend F-PROT.  It's free and it runs under DOS, but it works
 SD> wonderfully under OS/2.  It's what I used when I ran my board under
 SD> OS/2.

NORMAN used in this manner is really pretty good.  I have version 5.4.43 I 
guess it is now.  If you don't work through the server version it is not so 
expensive.  The Single User renewal for me is $80 USA for TWO years, which I 
just paid in.  No, if you try this as a server deal in an .ORG or a .COM 
setting, they will want a lot more than that for the service.  But as a single 
user front end filter, that's not too bad as I saw it.


Version 5.4 upward can be called as a command line operation and will proof 
whatever directory you ask of it from a batch file technique.  I'm using it on 
my connect box to the IP service for my email at present in just such a command 
line exit in Post Road Mailer.  I use a three way exit scan to check first the 
raw accepted .POP, then the way it winds up as MIME and finally a third time as 
it segregates out the attachments archives or whatever.

Other than being unable to handle an occaisional malformed archive, so far it 
has gotten everything that has come this way. I thing about thirty gibe.E 
incursions in the last two weeks alone.

They do have bugs on this or that.  But they are working closely with me for 
what I've found and turned in.  This whole virus issue is not at all as simple 
as some might conjecture.


--> Sleep well; OS/2's still awake! ;)

Mike @ 1:117/3001

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