On Monday, December 18 at 12:13 PM, quoth Peter Serwe:
For whatever reasons, BitDefender decided to no longer offer/support their
BitDefender for qmail product, and now wants to attempt to charge a per user
fee for scanning email. I've used ClamAV before, but I'm not certain how up
to date it's definitions are. Are there any other products, commercial
or otherwise
anyone recommends for Linux? Should I go with ClamAV?
There are plenty. A popular one on this list is Russ Nelson's
attachment blocker (which is NOT an antivirus solution, but is instead
an anti-FILE solution that allows you to do things like reject all
Windows executables regardless of their extension or mime-type); you
can find it on qmail.org. It's extremely lightweight and hard to fool,
but, like I said, it's not a full antivirus solution (viruses can be
in other formats, like MS Office documents), and has the drawback that
it makes it more difficult for your users to send each other Windows
executables (and whatever other file type you decide to block).
My personal favorite is ClamAV; it's virus definitions are updated
constantly (my server updates them four times a day), and in my
experience, it tends to catch new viruses at least as quickly as other
virus scanners.
In the commercial category, there's f-prot (www.f-prot.com),
Kaspersky's (www.kaspersky.com), and Sophos (www.sophos.com), and
probably a few others. I haven't had much experience with them, but
the options are there.
~Kyle
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Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
-- H. G. Wells
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