Re: Antivirus recommendation for Win 95

On Tue, Aug 24, 2004 at 08:41:10PM -0700, Aron Roberts wrote:
> Hi Tom and Mike,
>
> Thanks for your views!
>
> Tom, does this mean that there is a possibility that the the
> anti-virus component of the minimum standards and/or its
> implementation guidelines might be refined this fall?
>
> How can we (from a Micronet perspective, not an IST one, that is)
> track these developments, and/or contribute to this refinement
> process, if it occurs?

I doubt that the standards themselves will be changed, but there is
still a great deal of flexibility in what winds up as "platforms
listed on software.berkeley.edu." For example, we could list "Sophos
Anti-Virus for Solaris/Linux email servers"; that would limit the
requirement to email servers, rather than making the rather
nonsensical requirement that Sophos should run on a DNS server.

Actually, I am not certain what mechanism will be used to determine
what platforms are listed on the software.berkeley.edu site. I expect
that WSS is making those determinations for the Mac and Windows
clients, and I would guess that CISC will talk about Sophos and
similar server products, although up to this point we've not had a
serious discussion about it.

-- 
Tom Holub (tom_holub@LS.Berkeley.EDU, 510-642-9069)
College of Letters & Science
249 Campbell Hall
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