Anti-Virus Products versus UNIX OS/chipset

 

 

Sophos

mcafee

command

kaspersky

inoculan

Nod32

f-secure

f-prot

panda

rav

anitvir

clamav

trend

etrust

AIX/ppc

W

W

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

W

 

AIX/rs6000

 

M

 

 

 

 

 

W

 

 

 

W

W

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

FreeBSD/alpha

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

W

 

 

FreeBSD/hppa

 

M

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

FreeBSD/i386

U

W

 

W

 

W

 

W

 

W

 

W

 

 

FreeBSD/m68k

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

FreeBSD/mips

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

FreeBSD/ppc

 

M

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

FreeBSD/sparc

 

M

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

FreeBSD/vax

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

HPUX/hppa

W

W

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

W

M

HPUX/ia64

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

M

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Linux/alpha

W

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

W

 

 

Linux/i386

W

W

W

W

W

W

W

W

W

W

W

W

W

W

Linux/ia64

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

M

Linux/ppc

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

W

 

 

 

 

Linux/sparc

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

W

 

W

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

MacOSX/ppc

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

W

 

W

 

W

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

NetBSD/alpha

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

NetBSD/hppa

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

NetBSD/i386

 

M

 

 

 

W

 

W

 

W

 

W

 

 

NetBSD/m68k

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

NetBSD/mips

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

NetBSD/ppc

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

NetBSD/sparc

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

NetBSD/vax

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

OpenBSD/alpha

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

OpenBSD/hppa

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

OpenBSD/i386

 

M

 

W

 

W

 

W

 

W

 

W

 

 

OpenBSD/m68k

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

OpenBSD/ppc

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

OpenBSD/sparc

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

OpenBSD/vax

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Other (not Win)

 

 

W

 

W

 

 

W

 

 

 

W

 

W

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Solaris/i386

W

 

W

W

 

 

 

 

 

W

 

W

 

W

Solaris/sparc

W

W

W

W

W

 

 

 

 

W

 

W

W

W

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Tru64/alpha

W

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

SCO/i386

W

W

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

If the information in this table is incomplete or inaccurate, please send an email to the address at the bottom of the page.  Note that an anti-virus product for one flavor of BSD with the same chipset MAY work with other flavors of BSD.

 

If you are attempting to use MailScanner with anti-virus, and you have an uncommon platform, then you might want to try compiling clamav first.

 

Table Legend:

W – information gleaned from the product’s webpage or email with the vendor.

U – reported by MailScanner users in the field.

M – Maybe.  The vendor’s literature is unclear.  Check with their sales department.

 

Websites for Anti-virus Products:

Julian keeps this information in the MailScanner.conf file.  Consult this for the latest information.

 

Chipset Notations:

Alpha – DEC Alpha chip (64 bit)

Hppa – Hewlett-Packard PA-RISC or PA-RISC2 chips (32 or 64 bit)

I386 – Intel 386, 486, 586, or 686 series chips, or clones (32 bit)

Ia64 – Intel Itanium chips, or clones (64 bit)

M68k – Motorola 68000 series chips (32 bit)

Mips – MIPS chip

Ppc – PowerPC chip (IBM and Apple, 32-bit)

Rs6000 – IBM RS/6000 chips (32 bit)

Sparc – Sun Sparc and UltraSparc (32 or 64 bit)

Vax – ye olde DEC VAX (32 bit)

 

Julian’s In-house configurations:

Redhat 7, 8, 9, SuSe 8.1 (i386), sophos, mcafee, clam, panda, f-prot, f-secure,antivir,kaspersky, nod32, rav

FreeBSD (i386), sophos

Solaris 2.6, 9 (sparc), sophos (15K messages/day)

 

Reports from other MailScanner users:

FreeBSD 4.6.2 (i386), f-secure (27K messages/day)

Redhat 8, i386, mcafee, f-prot (10K messages/day)

Redhat 8, i386, sophos (4K messages/day)

Solaris 8, sparc, sophos (25K messages/day)

Redhat 7.2, 7.3 (i386), clamav

Redhat 8, 9 (i386), f-prot (100K messages/day)

Redhat 9 (i386), sophos, clamav (2K messages/day)

Solaris 8, sparc, mcafee (12K messages/day)

Tru64 5.1, alpha, sophos (500K messages/day)

HPUX 11.0, hppa, sophos (20K messages/day)

Solaris 9, sparc, clamav (20K messages/day)

 

If you have a platform/anti-virus configuration not listed in this table, please drop me an email at

“jaearick at Colby dot edu” and I will update this information.

 

Web page last updated:  September 11, 2003