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FredrikN 09-01-2002 09:43 AM

Virus scanner
 
Hi
I'm running my own mailserver with sendmail.

I'm looking for a free email virus scanner that can work together with sendmail.

A scanner that will erase all mail-viruses before the user dowloads it.

//Thanks

acid_kewpie 09-01-2002 10:26 AM

please search this site and the rest of the net for similar questions. linux has a negligible amount of virii, and general netwrok mail filters are avaible though. have a search

FredrikN 09-01-2002 10:28 AM

Ok, on my way....

J_Szucs 09-02-2002 07:58 AM

If you would like to protect Window$ clients from viruses, I do not think that there is a FREE virus scanner that is good enough.

I took a thorough survey some month ago and found that:
- good virus scanners are not free (only for personal use), and
- free virus scanners are not good enough.

However, I could find a free solution named Anomy Sanitizer, which is a flexible and easily configurable e-mail filtering tool, that can be set to
- find and remove (quarantine) executable attachments,
- clean html mails from dangerous tags
- eliminate some other tricks to which unpatched Outlooks are exposed
- scan MSOffice document attachments for macro viruses,
- use optional external virus scanner (if available).

I now use Anomy with satisfaction for 20 mail clients.

peter_robb 09-03-2002 02:19 PM

Try also this for a different solution.
Many $$$ virus scanners want a per mailbox licence fee and this solution uses a single version...

http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=4882

Regards,
Peter

FredrikN 09-03-2002 02:56 PM

Thanks 4 all tips.

I tryied mailscanner from http://www.sng.ecs.soton.ac.uk/mailscanner/

but it seems to be some kind of memory leak in it.

I'g gona try J_Szucs tips Anomy Sanitizer

Thanks


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