Clam AV

[Spicer, Kevin]

Drew Marshall wrote:
> I also don't
> use the MS update scripts, preferring my own cron jobs spaced at
> different hourly times so that if MS is called while an update is
> happening the other scanner will still work and to attempt to ensure
> that one scanner should catch updates no matter which half of the
> hour they are posted. 

The mailscanner update script *update_virus_scanners) creates a lock file which makes MailScanner wait for the scanner updates to complete before continuing with scanning, this should be safer than your method.

> should I also run Clam (Which was updated quite quickly
> yesterday, no promise that it wil be in the future but...) or is 3 AV
> products over kill. 

I now use Sophos, Clam and Symantec - Having seem the varience in update times the more the merrier is my angle.

> The box it's on is not that big so will Clam use
> huge amounts of system to run? 

Not huge (nothing like the load of Spamassassin).




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