(Reply from Randy Klumph) The University uses Sophos on all its systems. Would there be any conflict with Listserv, removing F-Secure and running Sophos instead? Regards, Randy Klumph [log in to unmask] The National Consortium on Deaf-Blindness The Teaching Research Institute 345 N Monmouth Ave Monmouth, OR 97361 http://nationaldb.org ph. 503.838.8885 - Eric Thomas wrote: >F-Secure is generally slowish because each file is scanned three times >by three independently developed engines. This being said, it is >exceptionally slow when scanning ZIP or JAR files, or files that it >believes could be ZIP files. There is no need, and frankly no reason, >to scan every file type. I set it up to scan only predefined file >types, and if needed I exclude certain directories where I know there >will be a bunch of ZIP or JAR files. > >I have not noticed a big difference in performance between 7.0 and >8.0. The party line is that 8.0 is faster, and it might be, I did not >see a big difference either way. I found 7.0 to be substantially >faster than 5.5, but I migrated a long time ago. > >There is big drop in F-Secure performance on Windows x64, especially >for ZIP files. Overall, I have no operational problem with F-Secure >performance on 32-bit Windows, not with any hardware made on the last >3 years. But on 64-bit Windows it can be a hassle and I really hope >they do something about it. > >If it comes to that, LISTSERV only needs F-Secure to scan the >x:\LISTSERV\TMP directory for filetype .EXE. But I would recommend >enabling normal AV scan to protect your system. F-Secure is not >perfect but it is one of the better products in the market where >detection rates are concerned. > > Eric