Which Virus Scanner - Clamav?

Julian Field mailscanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk
Wed Jan 22 17:00:17 GMT 2003


At 16:57 22/01/2003, you wrote:

> >As far as I am aware, ClamAV does not disinfect at all. But MailScanner
> >will still remove the infected attachments, so nothing nasty gets to the
> >recipient.
>
>Yeah, I just noticed that.  I just did a clamscan -R . --remove in my
>/var/spool/MailScanner/quarantine to remove all the infected files - thats
>adequate for my needs for the moment.
>
>Do any of the other *free* packages have disinfection routines ?

There aren't any other totally free ones. All the commercial ones can
disinfect macros viruses from documents.
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