Bitdefender AntiSpam: worth a try?

[Stephen Swaney]

On Nov 15, 2010, at 4:08 PM, Denis Beauchemin wrote:

> 
> Le 2010-11-15 15:50, Kevin Miller a écrit :
>> Taking just a quick glance at it, I see it runs as a milter in Sendmail.  As such, it would be called before MailScanner so integration wouldn't make sense in that case.  I'm not sure about the other MTA configurations, since I'm not running them and didn't look.
>> Are you just trying to use the antivirus part?  If it has a command line option then it could probably be integrated using the custom scanner featrue in MailScanner.  But it looks like it's trying to be a full featured anti-spam/anti-virus package.  I.e., it's more a replacement for MailScanner rather than an augmentation to it.
>> Again though, my thoughts are based on a 5 minute glance at the web page, so I could be missing the bigger picture...
>> 
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>> *From:* mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info [mailto:mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info] *On Behalf Of *Dave Jones
>> *Sent:* Monday, November 15, 2010 11:17 AM
>> *To:* mailscanner at lists.mailscanner.info
>> *Subject:* Bitdefender AntiSpam: worth a try?
>> 
>> >Hi,
>> >
>> >It looks like Bitdefender just released a free AntiSpam engine for mail
>> >servers (Linux-based):
>> >http://www.bitdefender.com/business/antispam-for-mail-servers.html
>> >
>> >Anyone tried it yet? If so, could it complement MailScanner?
>> >
>> >Thanks!
>> >
>> >Denis
>> 
>> I downloaded and installed it but MailScanner doesn't seem to support
>> this version yet in the virus.scanners.conf and the wrapper script.
>> 
>> It seems to have some potential goodness since it runs as a daemon.
>> I am using an old version of McAffee that is End-Of-Life on Dec 31 2010.
>> It's terrible taking 3-6 seconds to start and load defs for each batch.
>> 
>> Dave
> 
> I've looked at the docs and it really looks like a MS replacement without the antivirus part. They left it out of their free offering.
> 
> They have an interesting twist on phishing and malware detection: they push definitions based on user feedback (a la sa-learn --ham/spam). They collect those submissions from all participating clients. The definitions are screened by humans (so they say) before being pushed to all customers.
> 
> It may be a replacement for Barricade/MX. We'll be evaluating it as such.
> 
> Denis
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We'll probably be looking at adding support for the Daemon into BarricadeMX. It's pretty simple to add any virus scanner that can run as a daemon into BarricadeMX.

I'll post progress on the port and our testing of BitDefender. I'm sure the list will be happy to hear any of your impressions and test results..


Thanks,

Steve
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