Antivirus for mail server

Hondro · 06-21-2006, 10:11 AM

Hi, can someone give good advice which free antivirus will be the best for the mail server on quite slow PC with slackware10.2?

Berhanie · 06-21-2006, 10:49 AM

I use clamd (see ClamAV) on an old computer with Slackware 10.1. I don't know about best.

boudoirius · 06-21-2006, 11:59 AM

Clam AntiVirus is very flexible and works well as a mail server antivirus. You can find it ready as a compiled package for Slackware but I think it would be better if you compiled it from source. You can find the source tarball and documentation at sourceforge.net.

Good Luck

Alien Bob · 06-21-2006, 01:39 PM

...and a Slackware package, plus SlackBuild script (in case you want to compile yourself), at http://www.slackware.com/~alien/slackbuilds/clamav/

Eric

davidsrsb · 06-21-2006, 08:47 PM

I think that clamav is the only free antivirus program that can be legally used on a server.
AVG has restrictions that prohibit this usage.

jstephens84 · 06-23-2006, 01:38 AM

I know you said free anti-virus but I installed etrust from CA and it works pretty good. That's if you don't mind to pay for it and I am not sure what the system requirments in terms of hardware is.

But if you have to go with a free anti-virus then I would certainly go with clamAV.

prozac · 06-23-2006, 01:42 AM

All my servers use ClamAV, its the best thats free out there.

Hondro · 06-23-2006, 02:45 AM

This is a silly question, but how to enable mail scanning in ClamAV?

Tinkster · 06-23-2006, 02:57 AM

That'll depend on your MTA and its hooks :}

Go to http://freshmeat.net and search for +<your mailer> +clamav

Cheers,
Tink

gani · 06-24-2006, 12:39 AM

You can integrate easily amavisd-new with postfix to call the services of clamav for virus scanning.

Postfix has howtos for this and it's just a matter of reading and following amavisd-new "INSTALL" text file upon unpacking the source tar ball.

I both use SpamAssassin and ClamAV with Amavisd-new and just recently, added postgrey that further helps spam and virus control.