MTA + AV: opinions?

[Andre Costa]

On Tue, 8 Jun 2004 19:38:59 +0100
Kevin Spicer <kevins at BMRB.CO.UK> wrote:

[snip]
> > > > - if not, what (free) AV solution are you guys using? What's
> > > > your level of satisfaction with it?
> > > Use ClamAV (as well as Bitdefender) .
> >
> > Both? Any noticeable impact on performance?
>
> Yes theres an impact on performance in that it raises the system load
> (but nothing like the impact from SpamAssassin).  I actually use four
> scanners (Clam, Bitdefender, Symantec and Sophos) with SpamAssassin
> (with extra rules, Razor, Pyzor, DCC)- not to mention MailScanner-MRTG
> (of course) and Vispan.   I happily process 8-10 k messages per day
> (on a P800, 1G Ram, IDE drive), the load gets fairly high and the CPU
> is pretty much tied up during the day but we don't get any noticible
> delays.

Wow... you take the "safe is never safe enough" motto seriously =)

Jokes on the side, thks a lot for the feedback (specially the numbers),
it will be important as a reference for us when we come to compute
statistics/benchmarks (we will be _way_ below your msg load, though). It
was also interesting to have an overview of your setup.

Given the feedback so far, looks like BitDefender is indeed a good
choice. Any good reason why MailScanner support for it is still
considered beta?

Best,

Andre

--
Andre Oliveira da Costa
(costa at tecgraf.puc-rio.br)

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