Effective virus scanners

[Chris Mason]

I now have enabled clamav and f-prot together, I think that should stop just
about anything and the users permissions also contributes to overall system
security, so I feel pretty confident we are well protected. Spamassassin
takes out a lot of virus just on it own anyway.

Chris Mason
masonc at masonc.com
Yahoo IM: netconcepts_anguilla at yahoo.com
264 497-5670 Fax: 264 497-8463
www.netconcepts.ai


> -----Original Message-----
> From: MailScanner mailing list 
> [mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On Behalf Of Miguel Koren
> Sent: Sunday, August 24, 2003 12:06 PM
> To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> Subject: Re: Effective virus scanners
> 
> 
> 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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