Clam Anti-Virus

Robert A. Thompson ucs_rat at SHSU.EDU
Tue May 28 03:56:23 IST 2002


could one not set up mailscanner to scan with both virus scanners then
just keep an eye out for messages to make sure that the return reponse
from both scanners are in the message?  Or does mailscanner stop on the
first virus scanner to respond with a detection?

--robert


On Mon, 2002-05-27 at 21:45, Nick Phillips wrote:
> On Mon, May 27, 2002 at 07:34:05PM -0500, ISP List wrote:
> > Anyone tried out Clam + MailScanner yet?
> >
> > Might be a free alternative to McAfee or Sophos.
> >
> > http://freshmeat.net/projects/clamav/?topic_id=861
>
> I'm waiting for someone Clueful to try CLAM and tell me that it's
> good, reliable, etc. before I start spending any time on it.
>
> The impression I have (secondhand information) is that it's not
> reliable (in terms of catching viruses reliably) at the moment.
>
>
>
> Cheers,
>
>
> Nick
> --
> Nick Phillips -- nwp at lemon-computing.com
> Never look up when dragons fly overhead.



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