Wtf is 8e6? Some kind of damned internet colloquialism for eight-ee-six (ie 86)? I automatically will not use their products due to their absolutely ridiculous name. Not to mention, I've never even heard of them or Marshal. I sincerely hope their products are good; they're going to need something incredible to get past their absurd name.

Oh I see. You wont buy from them because they got a silly name...

Unlike companies like:

EMC ( e=mc2)

Yahoo

Gadzoox (actually i think they went out of business)

...

Heck the list is too long.

I always thought Micro Soft was a joke name, still I suppose it's less threatening then Mega Hard.

"Zero Knowledge Systems" was a favorite of mine. Perhaps they were under the impression that all of their potential customers would be mathematicians/cryptologists when they picked the name of their company...

Marshal's main product is MailMarshal, an smtp relay/gateway that scans email for virus, bad words, malware, phishing, S-OX compliance, etc. It's pretty good (in my opinion, sure other people hate it)

@Nicholas Ettel, that's a very odd statement to make in this day and age about a companies product name. In this case it's very accurate for what they do. Not to worry though they mainly deal with large organizations so I don't think they are going to be too upset that you won't consider buying their products.

My organization has been using 8e6's R3000 hardware for years. They are pretty sweet little 1U machines that analyze outgoing web traffic without actually holding it up, at least the way we have them configured. They are very versatile machines and, unlike other companies I deal with, 8e6's support is fantastic. To be fair we only use their equipment to filter web traffic not check for virus'. We use four of these boxes to filter the web traffic for all the public schools in North Dakota and while not 100% (what is except a whitelist?) they work pretty darn well.

vidi not vedi

Marshal8e6 sounds more like the name of a group of VXers rather than an anti-virus firm, e.g. "HAXED BY MARSHAL8E6 LULZ".

Heard of a sandbox?

This is new technology?

Guys I've just invented this thing called the wheel but I can't decide what colour it should be.

(Sorry DNA for mangling the quote).

How do I choose which protection racket *cough* AV firm to use? Should I use all of them? If I do, can I expect a major turf war to break out in my data?

And what kind of behaviour does it block? Root-level access, boot-block writing, that kind of thing that viruses do... OH, and so does Securom et al. as used by many BigNames(tm). We're not talking games here, we're talking major CAD & graphic design software that comes with FREE! rootkit installation...

"microsoft - micro implies small .."

well actually Microsoft was formed at the timed when the term Micro-computer (as opposed to Mini or mainframe) was in common use. So the name was actually a good one..... then....