Anti Virus

[der.hans]

Am 06. Mar, 2002 schwätzte Tom Achtenberg so:

> I'm looking for an anti virus program I can install on my Linux server
> that will protect the entire internal network.  Anyone know of such an
> animal?

Haven't used it as viruses are completely irrelevant to me ( other than the
bandwitdth they use ), but:

lufthans@fs:~$ apt-cache search anti | grep virus
mailscanner - An email virus scanner and spam tagger.
lufthans@fs:~$ apt-cache show mailscanner
Package: mailscanner
Priority: optional
Section: mail
Installed-Size: 544
Maintainer: Matthias Klose <doko@debian.org>
Architecture: all
Version: 3.11.1-1
Depends: exim | sendmail, tnef (>= 1.1.1), perl (>= 5.6.1),
libio-stringy-perl, libmime-base64-perl, libmailtools-perl, libmime-perl,
spamassassin (>= 2.01), unzip, ncftp | wget
Suggests: f-prot-installer
Filename: pool/main/m/mailscanner/mailscanner_3.11.1-1_all.deb
Size: 109208
MD5sum: 023cbe48bcca2dc950a5826d52caf6aa
Description: An email virus scanner and spam tagger.
 MailScanner is a freely distributable E-Mail gateway virus scanner
 and spam detector. It uses sendmail or Exim as its basis, and a choice of
 7 commercial virus scanning engines to do the actual virus scanning.
 It can decode and scan attachments intended solely for Microsoft Outlook
 users (MS-TNEF). If possible, it will disinfect infected documents and
 deliver them automatically. It also has features which protect it against
 Denial Of Service attacks.
 .
 Virus checking is disabled by default, spam checking is enabled by default.
 After installation, you can enable virus checking, write your own virus
 scanner or install one of the supported commercial anti-virus packages.

There are others. Search freshmeat. I think SuSE has two or three available.
Don't know about other dists.

Most anti-virus scanners will be commercial.

What MTA ( sendmail, exim, postfix, etc. ) are you using? Check the FAQ on
their web site.

ciao,

der.hans
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