Hi all
Frnds i have setup my Redhat 9.0 machine as NIS domain server and also make my linux box as mail server with the help of Postfix and now i want to setup antivirus for my mail and file server who can easily detect the virus in gateway from mail and also able to detect virus from files stored on my machine and rectify it so can u tell me which antivirus is best for my linux machine and what is the procedure for configuring it with any MTAs.
Thanx in advance.

Regd
Charan Jit Cheema (CJ)

you probably wanna use something like this: http://www.ijs.si/software/amavisd/

with an anti-virus like this: http://www.clamav.net

there's lots of info on how to get them working: http://www.google.com/search?q=postf...visd-new+howto

BTW, red hat 9.0 is unmaintained and as such is a security risk in and of itself...

Better idea... secure the box properly and you don't need "antivirus" crap.

Because that's what it really is ... (ahem) "crap."

All that you really need to do is to make very sure that you know what your computer is running, and why it's running it. And you need to be sure that you are not running as a privileged user; just an ordinary Joe.

If you do that, then there are basically two ways that someone could "get in." One is to launch a sophisticated attack against a privileged service|daemon running on your machine; actually not too likely. The other is to exploit some program that you are running, i.e. that you are able to run, in such a way as to compromise "the system."

If you are a limited user ... you are "not root" ... that is actually reasonably difficult to do. The files you might want to infect (and the registry entries on Windows) are not accessible to you.

Lastly, make sure that you have and do backups. USB 2.0 disk drives are dirt-cheap.

it's a *mail* server... he wants to scan his user's *mail* for viruses... the ubiquitous "teh linux do not need teh anti-virus" knee-jerk reaction is uncalled for here IMHO...