# Anti-Virus Products versus UNIX OS/chipset

| Sophos | mcafee | command | kaspersky | inoculan | Nod32 | f-secure | f-prot | panda | rav | anitvir | clamav | trend | etrust
AIX/ppc | W | W |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | W |
AIX/rs6000 |  | M |  |  |  |  |  | W |  |  |  | W | W |
FreeBSD/alpha |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | W |  |
FreeBSD/hppa |  | M |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
FreeBSD/i386 | U | W |  | W |  | W |  | W |  | W |  | W |  |
FreeBSD/m68k |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
FreeBSD/mips |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
FreeBSD/ppc |  | M |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
FreeBSD/sparc |  | M |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
FreeBSD/vax |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
HPUX/hppa | W | W |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | W | M
HPUX/ia64 |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | M
Linux/alpha | W |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | W |  |
Linux/i386 | W | W | W | W | W | W | W | W | W | W | W | W | W | W
Linux/ia64 |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | M
Linux/ppc |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | W |  |  |  |
Linux/sparc |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | W |  | W |  |
MacOSX/ppc |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | W |  | W |  | W
NetBSD/alpha |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
NetBSD/hppa |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
NetBSD/i386 |  | M |  |  |  | W |  | W |  | W |  | W |  |
NetBSD/m68k |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
NetBSD/mips |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
NetBSD/ppc |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
NetBSD/sparc |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
NetBSD/vax |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
OpenBSD/alpha |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
OpenBSD/hppa |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
OpenBSD/i386 |  | M |  | W |  | W |  | W |  | W |  | W |  |
OpenBSD/m68k |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
OpenBSD/ppc |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
OpenBSD/sparc |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
OpenBSD/vax |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
Other (not Win) |  |  | W |  | W |  |  | W |  |  |  | W |  | W
Solaris/i386 | W |  | W | W |  |  |  |  |  | W |  | W |  | W
Solaris/sparc | W | W | W | W | W |  |  |  |  | W |  | W | W | W
Tru64/alpha | W |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
SCO/i386 | W | W |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |

If the information in this table is incomplete or inaccurate, please send an email to the address at the bottom of the page. Note that an anti-virus product for one flavor of BSD with the same chipset MAY work with other flavors of BSD.

If you are attempting to use MailScanner with anti-virus, and you have an uncommon platform, then you might want to try compiling clamav first.

Table Legend:

W – information gleaned from the product’s webpage or email with the vendor.

U – reported by MailScanner users in the field.

M – Maybe. The vendor’s literature is unclear. Check with their sales department.

Websites for Anti-virus Products:

Julian keeps this information in the MailScanner.conf file. Consult this for the latest information.

Chipset Notations:

Alpha – DEC Alpha chip (64 bit)

Hppa – Hewlett-Packard PA-RISC or PA-RISC2 chips (32 or 64 bit)

I386 – Intel 386, 486, 586, or 686 series chips, or clones (32 bit)

Ia64 – Intel Itanium chips, or clones (64 bit)

M68k – Motorola 68000 series chips (32 bit)

Mips – MIPS chip

Ppc – PowerPC chip (IBM and Apple, 32-bit)

Rs6000 – IBM RS/6000 chips (32 bit)

Sparc – Sun Sparc and UltraSparc (32 or 64 bit)

Vax – ye olde DEC VAX (32 bit)

Julian’s In-house configurations:

Redhat 7, 8, 9, SuSe 8.1 (i386), sophos, mcafee, clam, panda, f-prot, f-secure,antivir,kaspersky, nod32, rav

FreeBSD (i386), sophos

Solaris 2.6, 9 (sparc), sophos (15K messages/day)

Reports from other MailScanner users:

FreeBSD 4.6.2 (i386), f-secure (27K messages/day)

Redhat 8, i386, mcafee, f-prot (10K messages/day)

Redhat 8, i386, sophos (4K messages/day)

Solaris 8, sparc, sophos (25K messages/day)

Redhat 7.2, 7.3 (i386), clamav

Redhat 8, 9 (i386), f-prot (100K messages/day)

Redhat 9 (i386), sophos, clamav (2K messages/day)

Solaris 8, sparc, mcafee (12K messages/day)

Tru64 5.1, alpha, sophos (500K messages/day)

HPUX 11.0, hppa, sophos (20K messages/day)

Solaris 9, sparc, clamav (20K messages/day)

If you have a platform/anti-virus configuration not listed in this table, please drop me an email at

“jaearick at Colby dot edu” and I will update this information.

Web page last updated: September 11, 2003