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Re: virus-scanners for mail servers



I strongly suggest you take a look at our eSafe Mail product.
I don't remember if it was released for linux already - either that or
it's around the late beta stage). The Exchange version just took
PCMag's Ed's choice this year. 

Basically, it's precisely what you need (if I understood correctly) - a
modern policy-managed AV on top of an SMTP proxy. 

Oh yeah, and it's totzeret haaretz :-)

Check out our site - www.esafe.com

Cheers!

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On Thu, 21 Jun 2001, Tzafrir Cohen wrote:

> Hi all
> 
> Due to company policy, I need to install a virus scanner on a linux mail
> server. I would like to ask for recommendations.
> 
> The organization generally works with Symantec (Norton), however, it seems
> that symantec is the only major vendor which does not have a virus scanner
> for linux, and thus I'm forced to look elsewhere.
> 
> I'm generally not impressed by the promissed of AV vendors to "catch 100%
> of 100 virii". Igenerally wouldn't trust an virus-scanner as a replacement
> for basic security (e.g.: don't run untrusted programs). However the sad
> fact is that many users do. So I'm not looking for "the most
> sophisticated" virus scanner.
> 
> It seems that almost all the information that can be found on the vendor
> is only regarding that last point. I'm interested to know some other
> things:
> 
> * Is there any of them that is "supported" in Israel to some extent?
>   Although I believe that I this is not so important.
> 
> * Performance. My server has other things to do besides running a virus
>   scanner. I currently run the mail server on a Celeron/400/128MB, that is
>   mostly busy with mail handling (including pop3 serivng) for 50-100
>   clients. Around 500 messages per day.
> 
>   I may also want to use a smaller computer as a mail gateway.
> 
> * "Ease of usse": Any of them doesn't work well with, say, amavis? Any
>   special quirks?
> 
> * The price should also be factored in somehow...
> 
> 
> Some other questions that come to mind:
> 
> * As a framework for a virus scanner I saw recommendations for amavis
>  (http://www.amavis.org ). Any other recomendations? It seems that it is
>  at least as good as the others.
> 
> * I'm currently using PostFix as the MTA. I currently use
> postfix-19991231_pl08 from mandrake 7.2 .I saw something in the latest
> version regarding content filtering. Worth the upgrade?
> 
> 
> Thanks
> 
> -- 
> Tzafrir Cohen
> mailto:tzafrir@technion.ac.il
> http://www.technion.ac.il/~tzafrir
> 
> 
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