Antivirus

g wolfman wrote:

Most e-mail servers that aren't MS Exchange (which is the majority of them) use ClamAV.

Which includes all versions of Mac OS X Server.

For better or worse MS Exchange is the market leader in enterprise/professional Email server market right now by a large margin...that's possibly why Apple have built-in support for it in iOS and OS X computers. Not many large organisations use OS X server that I have expereince of myself. The latest client and server AV packages fit hand in glove with one another. Clam while free is not usually the best choice for AV for professional persons such as myself.

Methinks this Ewen doth proclaim his professional status a touch too much!

Being the market leader in Enterprise mail services isn't all that big a deal. Enterprise mail services are a niche market.

Let me be explicit - The majority of email servers are run by ISPs and Web Hosting services. Relatively few Enterprise class mail servers exist outside of major corporations (most small and even medium size businesses get their mail from their ISP or Web Hosting service); Enterprise mail is a niche market.

Most ISP and Web Hosting services run Linux and therefore probaly use postfix, dovecot or some similar mail server (and probably sendmail). Most also use ClamAV as their inline AV engine for mail. Depending on how you interpret the percentages, Linux has between 2/3 and 3/4 of the server market in general, and the percentages are even higher on the Internet core backbone. That's a pretty large professional marekt for ClamAV.

@MadMacs0 - I chose not to mention OS X server because it's such a tiny percentage of the server market share. Really, the point is that calling ClamAV a poor choice for professionals (which is code for "when it really matters") is demonstrably false when the professionals who run the Internet itself use ClamAV.

g_wolfman wrote:

Let me be explicit - The majority of email servers are run by ISPs and Web Hosting services. Relatively few Enterprise class mail servers exist outside of major corporations (most small and even medium size businesses get their mail from their ISP or Web Hosting service); Enterprise mail is a niche market.

Windows-based servers are still the largest selling platform in the world. As a result of that many people use a commercial client AV that matches well with their commerical server AV software.

In what world?

As I wrote above, I have no issues with my AV package, so why would I use another?

You are welcome to do as you like. Nobody here can make you do any differently.

However, your "facts" are quite seriously flawed, as others have pointed out. Providing advice to others on a topic in which you demonstrate absolutely no expertise is irresponsible.