Mail Virus-Scanner under Linux
Hi all, I am looking for an Mail-Virus-Scanner, allready tested AMAVIS with McAfee but not very happy (see security problems with amavis). Have you some other solutions? (Comercial Solutions also) btw. Will SuSE distribute an Mail-Virus-Scanner? regards ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Gerhard Possler "Wer neue Wege geht, braucht starke Partner." Westernacher AG Am Hubengut 3 76149 Karlsruhe, Germany phone: +49-721/9772-0 fax: +49-721/9772-188 http://www.westernacher.de
gerhard.possler@westernacher.de wrote:
Hi all,
I am looking for an Mail-Virus-Scanner, allready tested AMAVIS with McAfee but not very happy (see security problems with amavis).
which in particular are ...? (The only security problem I know of has been fixed since 0.2.0-pre5 current is 0.2.0-pre6 on http://amavis.org/ )
Have you some other solutions? (Comercial Solutions also)
- Trend Micro InterScan VirusWall 3.01 Press Release at: http://www.antivirus.com/corporate/media/1999/pr102699.htm BTW. there is a Linux AntiVirus FAQ at: http://av-linux.w3.to/ Christian -- | Christian Bricart | C.Bricart@gevasys.de | c.o. GeVaSyS GmbH | http://www.gevasys.de/ | Kaiserstr. 100 (TPH 2) | FON: +49 2407/91314-14 | D-52134 Herzogenrath | FAX: +49 2407/91314-25
gerhard.possler@westernacher.de wrote:
I am looking for an Mail-Virus-Scanner, allready tested AMAVIS with McAfee but not very happy (see security problems with amavis).
The AMaViS team will be pleased to know, which security issues you see with AMaViS. Imho the combination of smtpd/smptfwdd (from the Juniper Firewall) and AMaViS is more secure, as smtp does itself some sanitize checks and AMaViS does not run as root.
Have you some other solutions? (Comercial Solutions also) btw. Will SuSE distribute an Mail-Virus-Scanner?
Well, Trend Micro InterScan VirusWall, which was/is developed for RedHat, and does not work with SuSE Linux (but they are working on a "SuSE-version"). H+B EDV AvGard, which is currently beta. (btw, Mail-Gate from URLabs/Symantec, but it does, apart from some other features, "only" content-filtering, but adding virus scanning stuff should not to difficult ;-) But Mail-Gate was also developed from RedHat Linux ...) Non-commercial: IspMailGate (Perl Module), Scan4Virus (supports only qmail), Interflex (well, it is in a way derived from AMaViS :-)) Some small solution exits for AVP/Linux and sendmail. If I missed one, please let me know. Thanks. best regards, Rainer Link -- Rainer Link, eMail: linkra@fh-furtwangen.de, WWW: http://rainer.w3.to/ Student of Communication Engineering/Computer Networking, University of Applied Sciences,Furtwangen,Germany,http://www.ce.is.fh-furtwangen.de/
Rainer Link wrote: Hi! Just a few notes to my last posting ...
(btw, Mail-Gate from URLabs/Symantec, but it does, apart from some other features, "only" content-filtering, but adding virus scanning stuff should not to difficult ;-) But Mail-Gate was also developed from RedHat Linux ...)
Afaik "adding virus scanning stuff" can not be done by yourself. As Symantec also develops Norton AntiVirus, it *would* be possible that Symantec adds a virus scan module to Mail-Gate (well, the scan engine must be ported to Linux/Unix, which takes some time, of course). But this is *NOT* an offical statement from Symantec. More information about Mail-Gate can be found at www.urlabs.com (URLabs was acquired by Symantec some month ago).
qmail), Interflex (well, it is in a way derived from AMaViS :-)) Some Ah, it is called inflex - sorry.
I released a new version of "my mini-FAQ antivirus software for Linux" (v1.8-pre1). It can be found at http://av-linux.w3.to/ - comments and suggestions are welcome :-) best regards, Rainer Link -- Rainer Link, eMail: linkra@fh-furtwangen.de, WWW: http://rainer.w3.to/ Student of Communication Engineering/Computer Networking, University of Applied Sciences,Furtwangen,Germany,http://www.ce.is.fh-furtwangen.de/
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