Remember clamAV provides NO protection as the real time agent in suse
does not allow clam AV to offer any real-time protection. It only offers
a clamscan 9 take the day off after you initiate it) and some
integration of scanning of emails in some email clients - Kmail I think
from memory is the only one.

See my other Post on this issue
RE: ClamAV open suse 10.2 and possible SLES and previous versions of
open suse

or you can test your installation very easily using

http://www.eicar.org/anti_virus_test_file.htm

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=270581

So if the quest is can you pass on antivirus with knowing over or intra net - 
YES and nothing will stop you until a MS Windows real time agent finds it.


There is a bug open as above, however in 2 occasions the bug guys have 
contradicted them selves and then resolved the bug as wontfix when his last 
reply is invalid. I have closed the bug as any further discussion on this issue 
is neither logical or constructive

I have have more than my daily dose of suse.de today.

Scott - Good morning - all





James Watkins wrote:
> On Thursday 24 May 2007 19:40, Martin Mielke wrote:
>   
>> Hi all again!
>>
>> nowadays I need to deploy an antivirus solution of some sort...
>> Better if it's an open source one instead of paying for it :-)
>>
>> Well, my idea is to have a client-server deployment, so you know how it 
>>     
> goes: the server takes care of the updates, among other things, and 
> distributes them to the clients which will be in-sync with it. As you can 
> imagine, I'd like a setup like that to save some bandwidth usage as 
> it's "useless" to have n-clients downloading the same antivirus signatures...
>   
>> I have thought of ClamAV as an initial approach to solve this. Maybe you 
>>     
> have a better suggestion, please let me know.
>   
>> So, if I go finally for ClamAV I'd like to know what the best configuration 
>>     
> method would be to achieve such a client-server scenario.
>   
>> Now, as for the antispam solution... I have DSPAM in mind... anyone here has 
>>     
> experienced integrating it with Postfix + Cyrus IMAP + MySQL ?
>   
>> ...or should I go for the "traditional" SpamAssassin? (nothing against it! 
>>     
> just asking...)
>   
>> TIA and best regards,
>> Martin
>>     
>
> I can't comment on AV but for our company spam filter I use ASSP:
>
> http://assp.sourceforge.net/
>
> It's an SMTP proxy so you can use it with whatever mail server you like (we 
> have Exchange 5.5 I'm sorry to say).  Setting up is non-trivial - but then 
> again it's not brain surgery either - but once it's all set up you rarely 
> need to touch it.  It seems quite accurate too (one false positive in about 8 
> months).  Plus you get a great snake:
>
> http://assp.sourceforge.net/snake.html
>
> Cheers,
>
> James.
>
>   

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