Effective virus scanners

[Miguel Koren]

Chris;

I have a similar combination on 3 servers right now (no spam checking). I 
found it very easy to install and configure and apparently it works great. 

I just have some doubts about the scanning effectiveness but all the 
testing I've done shows that the combination works fine. The virus list, 
though, has about 10 times less definitions than commercial scanners. I 
suppose this is not a big problem because older viruses are not that 
likely but it is a point worth thinking about. I think there are some 
other 'free' scanners but I would go the Clam route because it is Open 
Source and if you really need to you can see what it does. I'm not saying 
that it is something you would normally do!

I did notice though that 'freshclam' dies sometimes. I was not able to 
find a reason so far nor if it is a known problem. This happens on Redhat 
7.3 and Redhat 9.

Miguel

On Sat, 23 Aug 2003, Chris Mason wrote:

> I have managed (pretty easy) to install and configure
> MailScanner/SpamAssassin/ClamAV and they work great in the two sites I
> have installed them.
> >From your experience how effective is the ClamAV virus database? Is
> there a better free virus scanner?
> 
> Thanks for the advice,
> 
> Chris Mason
> 


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