Microsoft to kill popular Linux antivirus product (ComputerWorld) [LWN.net]

Microsoft to kill popular Linux antivirus product (ComputerWorld)

Posted Jun 13, 2003 23:29 UTC (Fri) by penguinista (guest, #308)
In reply to: Microsoft to kill popular Linux antivirus product (ComputerWorld) by smoogen
Parent article: Microsoft to kill popular Linux antivirus product (ComputerWorld)

Another "so, who cares? development..."

Lets see, I am searching for linux anti-virus alternatives to RAV now:

http://www.centralcommand.com/13062003.html(special offer for RAV refugees)
http://www.f-prot.com/download/
http://www.bitdefender.com/index.php
http://www.pandasoftware.com/com/linux/linux.asp
http://www.avp.ru/
http://www.openantivirus.org/
http://www.sophos.com/
[This from just doing some quick searches, sorry to those I left out]

Anyway, NOT running $MS software along with the growth of webmail clients will eliminate >90% of the problem.
Look for the above companies and many new ones to fill the void that RAV
has left (Symantec, are you listening?) Moving on...

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Microsoft to kill popular Linux antivirus product (ComputerWorld)

Posted Jun 15, 2003 17:10 UTC (Sun) by cpm (guest, #3554) [Link]

Who cares?

I care.

We have been swearing by RAV for 2 years.
While all the *other* av vendors have been
strictly reactive, RAV has been putting out
updates hours if not days ahead everyone else.

After one of our consultants, (advocates of
a M$ partner av system) introduced Klez into
our sequel servers during an "update" visit, we were
up all night scubbing our systems down with the
RAV cleaner, while everyone else was rebuilding
from scratch. We lost NOTHING except a few binaries
thanks to RAV.

The RAV sendmail product has been FANTASTIC, the
file server av has been wonderful, everything they
did worked GREAT. On our recommendation, we probably
sold 3 or 4 hundred seats of their av desktop product.

This was a really bad move. RAV rocked, now it will
become just another M$ product.

RAV on linux was just one of the very many reasons why
Samba on linux was just simply better. RAV on sendmail
was just one of the very many reasons why sendmail
on linux let me sleep good when I wasn't at work.

I can't help but think that this move was predicated on
M$'s desire to undermine Linux every way it can. Killing
good Linux products by assimilation helps meet that
end.

Microsoft to kill popular Linux antivirus product (ComputerWorld)

Posted Jun 19, 2003 3:02 UTC (Thu) by lonely_bear (subscriber, #2726) [Link]

Actualy you left one out. Haven't had time to take a good look at it yet.
This one is GPLed, using the AV pattern file from OpenAntiVirus
http://clamav.elektrapro.com/