Clamav replacement for FreeBSD+postfix?

[David Gilbert]

>>>>> "John" == John Capo <jc at irbs.com> writes:

John> Quoting Francisco Reyes (lists at stringsutils.com):
>> Anyone using something other than Clamav in an busy FreeBSD+postfix
>> environment for antivirus?
>> 
>> Clamav freezes often. Reading archives, seems this is not so rare
>> in FreeBSD.
>> 
>> We even tried better machines, and gave Clamav more memory. That
>> helped, but still seeing issues.
>> 
>> This is for an ISP, so experiences on other ISPs or large setups
>> (ie over 100,000 emails per day) would be most welcome.

John> We scan 300,000 messages on a busy day with 4 4.11 machines.
John> ClamAV has been rock solid here for many months.  I updated to
John> 0.90 yesterday due to the security alert and so far so good.

John> We also offer Sophos as an extra cost option due to its cost.
John> Sophie and Sophos have never burped once in the 5 years we have
John> used that combo.  Highly recommended but not cheap.

I run spampd on some machines and amavis on others, but both use
clamav for virus scanning.  I can't say that I've had any problems
that I've noticed.  Most mailservers are running in the 100 to 500
messages a minute range.

Dave.

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