Antivirus for (mailservers on) FreeBSD

[Gianmarco Giovannelli]

At 12/06/2003, Bill Moran wrote:
>Gianmarco Giovannelli wrote:
>>I was a very happy RAV antivirus (by Gecad) user, a former free company 
>>that produced a very good, IMHO, antivirus.
>>Http://www.ravantivirus.com
>>Now RAV  was acquired by Microsoft and they'll discontinue all the non 
>>Windows products.
>>This is the email they are sending to the customer asking informations.
>>
>
>On the flip side, we replaced Kaspersky with Sophos and it has been
>working wonderfully.  Sophos likes to brag about being the fastest to
>respond to new threats and my experience with them validates that claim.
>It's also fast and reliable.

I have used sophos a lot before RAV, but I didn't like to much the 
following points:
1) the scanner has to be used with amavis, which was obviusly so far slow 
than the dedicated RAV engine. I think they have a dedicated smtp version, 
but I don't know if they support FreeBSD natively.

2) the upgrades are good for the single "ide" idea, but are a little pain 
when you have to change the entire database (monthly based) because you 
have to rely on manual procedure (sh scripts) to update it. But it was a 
lot of times ago, perhaps now things are changed.

Can you explain how you use it ? Do you use amavis to do the wrapper ?




Best Regards,
Gianmarco Giovannelli ,  "Unix expert since yesterday"
http://www.gufi.org/~gmarco