Antivirus for (mailservers on) FreeBSD

Bill Moran wmoran at potentialtech.com
Fri Jun 13 06:00:49 PDT 2003


Gianmarco Giovannelli wrote:
> At 12/06/2003, Terry Lambert wrote:
> 
>> Gianmarco Giovannelli wrote:
>> > Now I am looking for another antivirus product that work fine with
>> > sendmail-milter and FreeBSD.
>> > Is there anyone here that would share their experience with other 
>> similar
>> > products ?
>>
>> I really like Sophos.  McAffee also did a deal with Whistle/IBM
>> at one point, for doing this on the InterJet.  I don't know if
>> they ever completed the code, or what happened with that.
> 
> I am not looking for a simple antivirus but a very quick and fast, if 
> possible,  product specified for mailservers.

Sophos products do this.

> Sophos should use amavis, which usually loose some msg (you have to 
> re-queue from time to time) :-).

I have never seen this.  Been running Amavis for over a year and never
had a complaint of lost messages.

-- 
Bill Moran
Potential Technologies
http://www.potentialtech.com



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