are there good options for anti virus. for linux mail servers and file serves.
please suggest. thanks
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On Wed, 2004-09-22 at 16:48, anthony fernandes wrote:
are there good options for anti virus. for linux mail servers and file serves.
I've been using F-Prot for Linux for over two years now with Sendmail and Amavis-Perl, and it works pretty well. No problems since I started using it. YMMV. It's free for personal use, but business use costs $500 US per year. I've also implemented McAfee on Linux, but that costs way more than F-Prot.
CLamAV is an open source alternative, but is probably not mature enough for commercial use (IMHO, antivirus is one area where FOSS has a long way to go before catching up to commercial offerings - maybe because so few FOSS users care about Windows?).
HTH,
Krishnan
I've been using F-Prot for Linux for over two years now with Sendmail and Amavis-Perl, and it works pretty well. No problems since I started using it.
We used f-prot in the beginning too. It used to cost of $300 per server per year. But then they changed policy and started license the server version per user which required us to cough up over $3500 ... so we switched to using Clam AV instead....
I have to say that the results have not been any different. A lot of the work is done by MailScanner. The reason I prefer MailScanner to Amavis is because I could never get Amavis to work. :-)
CLamAV is an open source alternative, but is probably not mature enough for commercial use (IMHO, antivirus is one area where FOSS has a long way to go before catching up to commercial offerings - maybe because so few FOSS users care about Windows?).
Based on experience, I would have to differ. But then again it is MHO. :-)
Anthony... ClamAV is good .... go ahead and try it before you consider buying a paid for version like f-prot.
Regards
Rishi
Hi...Try AVG or if you don't mind paying for a licence, then try Hauri.....
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are there good options for anti virus. for linux mail servers and file serves.
Hi
We use ClamAV with MailScanner on our mail servers. Does a pretty damn good job of it. I don't think we've got a report of any virus slipping through except for one.. I think it was called bagle which required really dumb users to screw themselves. It sent a zip file with a password and in the mail it provided instructions and the password to open the zip file and execute the virus.
But in about a couple weeks the MailScanner team figured out a way to deal with Password protected zip files or something which is not bad for something that we did not pay money for. :-)
Also there are rules that you can customize which do not permit bad extensions through like .exe .pif and .scr etc. so if it's a new virus and ClamAV can't detect it MailScanner quarantines the attachment and sends a notification to both sender and receiver ... The system administrator can then later retrieve it for the receiver.
I've never used one on Samba (File Server).
Hope this helps.
Rishi
try clamav.--
--Nik
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are there good options for anti virus. for linux mail servers and file serves.
please suggest. thanks
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Hello Anthony,
On Thu, 2004-09-23 at 02:18, anthony fernandes wrote:
are there good options for anti virus. for linux mail servers and file serves.
If you are looking for Commercial Products, have a look at following products.
MailScan for Linux Mail Servers-- http://www.mwti.net/antivirus/mailscan/mailscan_for_linux.asp http://ftp.microworldsystems.com/linux/mailscan/
eScan for Linux -- http://ftp.microworldsystems.com/linux/escan/
WebScan for Linux Proxies -- http://ftp.microworldsystems.com/linux/webscan/
please suggest. thanks
HTH With regards,
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anthony fernandes -
Dinesh Shah -
K Ravishekar -
Nikhil Parva -
Rishi -
Srinivasan Krishnan