Virus scanning of spam messages

[Martin Hepworth]

Pavel

look at the faq for adding in virus scanners.

Basically, install install the scanner (in the case of Sophos you need a
specific install script not the vendor supplied) and edit the
MailScanner.conf in the "Virus Scanning and Vulnerability Testing"
section as required for your scanner.

I use Sophos (via the savi interface) and ClamAV (which is free). There
aer lots of other commercial varients that are supported as well..

--
Martin Hepworth
Snr Systems Administrator
Solid State Logic
Tel: +44 (0)1865 842300


Pavel Zichovsky wrote:
> Hi there!
>
> How to configure Mailscanner to do virus scan on spam messages?
>
> I have recently noticed, that cca 10-15% of messages tagged as spam (either by
> RBL or SpamAssassin rules) are in fact only viruses. But it looks like mailscanner
> did not scan them for viruses.
>
> Spam messages are (fortunately) stored in quarantine, where I can delete them.
> (And when accidentally released, viruses are caught by amavis sitting on local
> delivery as "last hope")
>
> But what if spam actions would be "deliver"? Will be then spam messages scanned
> for viruses?
>
> And finally these messages are screwing up statistics, because viruses are not
> counted correctly (because not all are detected).
>
> Regards
> Pavel Zichovsky (zichovsky at trul.cz)
>
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