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virus-scanners for mail servers
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- Subject: virus-scanners for mail servers
- From: Tzafrir Cohen <tzafrir(at-nospam)technion.ac.il>
- Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2001 12:39:30 +0300 (IDT)
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- Reply-To: Tzafrir Cohen <tzafrir(at-nospam)technion.ac.il>
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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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