Firewall questions

RW list-freebsd-2004 at morbius.sent.com
Wed Mar 23 13:46:00 PST 2005


On Wednesday 23 March 2005 21:03, Ean Kingston wrote:
> > Also, I am looking for antiviral protection for both
> > the FreeBSD server, and any Windows or Macintosh
> > systems that may be using the POP mail. I know qmail
> > has one solution, which was contributed by a qmail
> > user, but what are the alternatives?
>
> There are very few anti-virus packages for FreeBSD. AFAIK there are no
> viruses that target FreeBSD. There are a few that target x86 hardware but
> these don't propagate over the 'net.

Clamav is supposed to be good for filtering windows viruses out of email. I 
know Fastmail.fm dropped Kaspersky in favour of Clamav, they claimed the 
updates to be at least as good.


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