topic Re: Anti-virus in Operating System - Linux

Anti-virus

Steven E. Protter — Tue, 21 Jan 2003 04:34:53 GMT

I can get a new client if I can get some basic anti-virus checking going on my mail server.

I'd like a tool perferably gnu license that will let me scan the main sendmail mail file and strip out virus's replacing them with a message that the file has been stripped out.

I'd like to be able to update the virus database from public sources as well.

Thanks.

P

Re: Anti-virus

Stuart Browne — Tue, 21 Jan 2003 04:44:30 GMT

I've not heard of a GNU one with a free license, sorry.

We use the Trend Micro product "Interscan Virus Wall" here.. Good product.

With a bit of poking, very stable too.

Re: Anti-virus

U.SivaKumar_2 — Tue, 21 Jan 2003 06:42:19 GMT

Hi,

May I suggest you open source AMAVIS virus scanner for your purpose.

Download it from
http://www.amavis.org

regards,

U.SivaKumar

Re: Anti-virus

U.SivaKumar_2 — Tue, 21 Jan 2003 07:20:51 GMT

Hi,

And more open source Antivirus softwares.

http://www.openantivirus.org/projects.php

regards,

U.SivaKumar

Re: Anti-virus

benoit Bruckert — Wed, 22 Jan 2003 09:04:26 GMT

I'm running Amavis (www.amavis.org) which is managing attachments in mails.
I.E. you can extract with this tool on the sendmail server (through the milter interface) attachments, uncompress them (what ever the compressor is !), and finally give the attachement to another tool : the anti virus software.
The trouble is that you have very few gnu anti virus software. THe only I found is openantivirus (www.openantivirus.org) but signatures files are not up to date !
There's a link on this site :
http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/openantivirus/mini-faq/av-unix_e.txt?rev=HEAD&content-type=text/vnd.viewcvs-markup

which describe many anti virus products....

hth
Benoit
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