include much needed antivirus products in FC2

[seth vidal]

On Mon, 2004-01-05 at 12:55, Adam Debus wrote:
> > Then you're inappropriately increasing the load on a central machine
> > rather than decentralizing scanning to the desktop windows machine,
> > where it belongs.
> >
> 
> Perhaps...but in 4 years of working at an ISP, I've discovered that most
> users do not install it no matter how many times you tell them that it's a
> good idea. I've got users I end up disconnecting and blocking from the 'net
> about once a week. Corporate LAN support wasn't much better.
> 
> It doesn't add that much more load, and the benifits of having the mail
> scanned before it hits an end users machine greatly outweighs the cost of
> purchasing an additional processor, or a faster processor. That is, of
> course, assuming you're using the mail server for more then 10 people. If
> you're not, or you just don't want it, don't use the AV software.

Try this sometime - process 100000+ pieces of mail a day and see if AV
scanning doesn't add much load? AV scanning centrally does NOT scale.

Moreover - if you are always protecting your users then they will never
learn.

-sv