Antivirus

[Oliver Jones]

I've found an excellent SPAM/Virus scanner is MailScanner
(www.mailscanner.info).  It plugs into sendmail very well (doesn't use
the milter, just 2 instances of sendmail).  Works with heaps of virus
scanners and it's GPL software.

Regards


On Thu, 2003-01-16 at 23:57, Russell Packer wrote:

> I found that using content filters, such as SpamAssasin, could be used to block 95% of virii by simply blocking any file attachment type bar .zip. Things like FriendsGreetings and the like could be blocked on an ad-hoc basis as soon as the sys admin is aware of them by just adding a new rule. By doing that I kept the company virus free since implementation.
> 
> Just my 2 euros worth...
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Piet Ruyssinck [mailto:Piet.Ruyssinck at rug.ac.be]
> Sent: 16 January 2003 10:23
> To: info-cyrus at lists.andrew.cmu.edu
> Subject: Re: Antivirus
> 
> 
> On Wed, 15 Jan 2003, Sebastien Marmorat wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > What is the best antivirus solution for my mail server Cyrus/Postfix ?
> 
> I'm not running a production system yet, but I have a test system
> running Cyrus to replace our current UWimapd based solution as soon as
> the new hardware for it arrives.
> 
> On the test system, which is behaving very well, I have, besides Cyrus
> 2.1.11, Sendmail 8.12.6 and AmaVis
> (http://www.ijs.si/software/amavisd/) (via the milter interface), with
> SpamAssassin 2.43 (http://spamassassin.sourceforge.net/) and Clam
> AntiVirus (http://clamav.elektrapro.com/).
> 
> A cronjob downloads the new virus database once a day.  The new Sobig
> virus got first detected on Jan 14h, which is 5 days after its
> breakout, iirc.  I have not enough experience with other anti-virus
> solutions to decide whether 5 days is a fast or rather a slow response.
> Maybe, the big commercial players have better response times.  It would
> be nice to have a specs/features matrix of the available virus
> scanners.
> 
> 
> 
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Oliver Jones > Senior Software Engineer > Deeper Design Limited. 
oliver at deeper.co.nz  > www.deeperdesign.com > +64 (21) 41-2238
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