delorie.com/archives/browse.cgi   search  
Mail Archives: cygwin/2005/05/03/17:36:43

Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm
List-Subscribe: <mailto:cygwin-subscribe AT cygwin DOT com>
List-Archive: <http://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin/>
List-Post: <mailto:cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
List-Help: <mailto:cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com>, <http://sourceware.org/ml/#faqs>
Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com
Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Reply-To: Cygwin List <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Message-Id: <6.2.1.2.0.20050503173058.03b77f88@pop.prospeed.net>
Date: Tue, 03 May 2005 17:34:09 -0400
To: "bob sandefur" <rsandefur AT cam-llc DOT com>, <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
From: Larry Hall <lh-no-personal-replies-please AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: Re: Best antivirus for cygwin? - was Norton antivirus and the Trojans
In-Reply-To: <20515745371401@colorado-mail.cam-llc.com>
References: <20515745371401 AT colorado-mail DOT cam-llc DOT com>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Note-from-DJ: This may be spam

At 05:02 PM 5/3/2005, you wrote:
>Hi-
>
>Apparently Norton antivirus is getting a false positive with rsync and wget.
>I would really like to dump Norton AntiVirus but I have never found any AV
>program to be very satisfactory.  I would like the following:
>1. 64-bit compatible (if the drivers ever show up I will migrate to xp64)
>2. Relatively cheap for up to 10 machines (every year I buy enough three or
>five packs of Norton for about 10 or 20 bucks with rebates, uninstall the
>old version and run the new version for a year.  This is much cheaper than
>upgrading through the Norton web site.).
>3. Auto updating.
>4. Cygwin friendly
>
>Any big successes or failures in the antivirus department for cygwin users?
>
>(so far avast looks ok to me)


While discussion of this may be useful to folks on this list, anything 
beyond Cygwin's clamav package is probably off-topic here.  Can I suggest
you take this to the cygwin-talk list instead?  It would certainly be on-
topic there.


--
Larry Hall                              http://www.rfk.com
RFK Partners, Inc.                      (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office
838 Washington Street                   (508) 893-9889 - FAX
Holliston, MA 01746                     


--
Unsubscribe info:      http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
Problem reports:       http://cygwin.com/problems.html
Documentation:         http://cygwin.com/docs.html
FAQ:                   http://cygwin.com/faq/

- Raw text -


  webmaster     delorie software   privacy  
  Copyright © 2019   by DJ Delorie     Updated Jul 2019