Installing ClamAV for the first time

[Scott Silva]

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Quentin Campbell wrote:
> After McAfee and Sophos let us down over the Mytob.gen worm, have
> decided to install ClamAV as a third A-V engine to be used by MS.
> 
> Am running Red Hat AS3 + Sendmail + MailScanner + SpamAssassin + A-V
> engines.
> 
> Normally do MS install from RPM version downloaded from Julian's site.
> 
> Where is best source of info/how-to for installing Clam in the above
> environment? Is it better to do a source install (and subsequent
> upgrades) or find a suitable RPM from a third party?

Even BitDefender caught this one before McAfee.
I haven't taken actual data, but it seems Clam is way above the others I
use in detection. Lets hear it for open source!!


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