🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <Pine.LNX.4.10.9910301157110.1398-100000@laptop.jasonclifford
.com>, Jason Clifford <jason@dlsl.demon.co.uk> writes:

>Sophos (http://www.sophos.co.uk/) tell me that their anti-virus product
>is/will be free for personal use under Linux.

I've just been to http://www.sophos.co.uk/downloads/eval/savunix.html
and downloaded the free evaluation version. Surprisingly I've been
unable to find any licence details either on the website nor in the tar
file, not even any indication of how long the free evaluation period
lasts for.

The installation notes and manpage are a bit vague and misleading. You
need to give the install script one of the directory options although
the notes imply that all parameters are optional, also the manpage fails
to state that the sweep command needs to be told what directory to start
scanning from. It scans a FAT32 partition from Linux without any
problems and seems to run at a similar speed to f-prot.

I wouldn't be likely to use it instead of f-prot for normal use but if
it ends up being free it will provide a good replacement for my old
paranoid approach of periodically booting and checking from a clean
floppy containing f-prot, there just isn't room for a minimal f-prot on
a G95 boot floppy anymore.

-- 
Mike Clarke