[NBLUG/talk] Virus scanning in linux and sendmail.

[Mark Street]

I have looked into this also but haven't jumped yet.  Since the topic has been 
brought up.  I ike openantivirus.org as a resource.  Plenty of choices and 
options available if you want to get creative.

http://www.openantivirus.org/projects.php

As Eric noted, the virus scanning component is the weakest link with the open 
projects, definitions are ever changing but most of the tools do a fairly 
good job.  I can't speak for Openantivirus definitions but hey.... 

On Friday 19 September 2003 09:21, Eric Eisenhart wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 19, 2003 at 08:38:27AM -0700, Jeremy Turner wrote:
> > I think there's a package called amavis or something like that which
> > hooks into most major MTAs with no big issues.
>
> http://www.amavis.org/
>
> I'd looked into this; we never quite set it up, though.  It can work with
> sendmail, postfix, qmail or exim, generally via whichever architecture is
> most appropriate for that MTA.  (for instance, with sendmail it uses the
> efficient "milter" interface instead of weird multi-queue interfaces,
> theoretically making it possible to reject virus-infected email while the
> remote end is still sending it to your server)
>
> One *big* caveat, though:
> amavis does *not* include a virus scanner.  It's a generalized interface
> between several MTAs and many virus scanners, so you need to provide it
> with a virus scanner and an MTA, and virus software still tends to cost
> money.

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