From: Casper (no email)
Date: Tue Oct 01 2002 - 18:17:08 EDT
Ah, pfew.... backup... I was almost thinking that I was landed in a
Mailarmor fans area ;)
No honestly, we tested the many eval version from different AV developers,
and have to say that in the first place we also looked at Verixa Mailarmor
and others, mostly because we 'heard of it'...
But digging futher, I found out about Dr Web, and after te many (stress)test
and second opinions of the *NIX developers here, Dr Web came out as a number
one unanimous.
The Mailarmor was 'runner up' for us, and could be the one we would choose,
if we were more conventional like more looking at marketing things, like
fancy websites and advertisings.
But we are not really a 'conventional' hosting company, and that's why we
also use Postfix instead of sendmail ... And you must admit, that going with
a _less_ conventional choice, gives you a better program, looking at
Postfix/Sendmail.... So we decided to go for the Dr Web trusting the
developers to make the best ongoing AV solution ;)
So, like I told in previous mails, we should go for Dr Web, and I tried to
explain why. The rest is up to you. Nothing to flame, just our opinions and
findings we like to share from our little Dutch & Belgium countries to the
rest of the world (Yup, we seems to be multinational <grin>).....
- Casper
----- Original Message -----
From: "Sergey Akhapkin" <>
To: <>
Sent: Tuesday, October 01, 2002 7:39 PM
Subject: Re[2]: Which virus scanner is best for our needs?
> Hello Graham,
>
> Tuesday, October 1, 2002, 7:09:25 PM, you wrote:
>
> >> It seems that this virusscanner engine is number one in russia for
years,
> >> but is just become 'known' in the western world ;)
> >> Our developer are also quite happy with the engine, telling me it's a
robust
> >> thing and really good ported to *NIX..
> GH> Kaspersky is the leader in Russia with above 70% market share.
>
> I dont want flames about "who leader ?".
>
> GH> Dr. Web's database only detects around 29K viruses and it depends
heavily on heuristics.
> GH> This is a problem since over 75K known viruses exist.
>
> Hmmm, You wrong again. DrWeb database contain a 30k VIRUSFOUNDING
> RECORDS. But some of records able to detect whole family of some
> viruses (10 and more viruses). It's common mistake, that 1 record
> detect 1 virus. In most case 1 record == N viruses. I think, that
VirusBulletin
> does not award DrWeb with 6 VB100% in last two year if DrWeb
> was able detects only 30k viruses from 75k. :)
> (Source: http://www.virusbtn.com/vb100/archives/products.xml?table,
> looks DialogueScience entry).
>
> I believe, that no one of av-vendor cannot answer "How much viruses is
> known by their product".
>
> GH> Dr. Web is not a bad product but the virus database is to small
compared to other products for the same or less cost.
>
>
>
> Best regards,
> Sergey Akhapkin <>
> Software Developer
> ID Antivirus Lab <http://www.drweb32.com>
>
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