Re: [squid-users] Antivirus

From: Simon White <simon@dont-contact.us>
Date: Fri, 29 Mar 2002 10:28:31 +0000

29-Mar-02 at 11:12, Lieven Marchand (lieven.marchand@just.fgov.be) wrote :
> Simon White writes:
> > Trend themselves warn against scanning HTTP because of the high overhead,
> > however if you need the fullest virus security then you may be considering
> > it.
>
> An alternative is to put the http scanning on the client boxes. McAfee
> has this option in their Windows antivirus product. It scales far
> better with the number of clients.

Well if you have a big network, how do you easily deploy client-by-client
scanning?

Updates: One centralised point, or everyone having an update schedule?

Support: One server to debug, or hundreds of clients?

Licensing: Several single user licences, or one licence for the whole
network?

Yes, scalability is better, but support overhead goes up considerably.

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