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Re: virus-scanners for mail servers



On Sun, 24 Jun 2001, Miki Shapiro wrote:

> 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

I strongly suggest that you don't advertise on our list.

What's the point of posting to this list if you don't know if it's
available on Linux?

> it's around the late beta stage). The Exchange version just took
> PCMag's Ed's choice this year. 

Who on this list cares about the Exchange version?

> 
> Basically, it's precisely what you need (if I understood correctly) - a

Except that it's not available on Linux, which is precisely what he needs.

> modern policy-managed AV on top of an SMTP proxy. 

No, on top of Exchange.
Regards,

 - yba

> 
> 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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