On Thu, 1 Nov 2001 at 01:36, Michael Chaney wrote:
> I finally finished setting this up, using the Sophos virus scanner
> running on FreeBSD 4.4 and using Exim.

I don't use Exim, but I think AMaViS supports Exim as well. I'm using
AMaViS (with McAfee's uvscan) now with Postfix on Debian GNU/Linux and
find it's really great. I had to create my own packages for a number of
archaic archival tools that AMaViS needs to be able to scan stuff hidden
in such archives sent by mail, and had to create a package (very crude,
though) for AMaViS too as none exist for Debian to my knowledge. But with
that it was smooth sailing (and the documentation for AMaViS is pretty
okay for Postfix).

Would you by any chance have any information to share in "MailScanner vs
AMaViS" style?

> I sent myself a couple of viruses (I get a Sircam every week or so),
> and it caught them, quarantined them, and sent along a nice message to
> the intended recipient (with the virus removed), the original sender,
> and the postmaster.

In this regard it's in the same boat as AMaViS I guess. Including sending
the postmaster informational message about virus-infected mail. Makes
people wonder how I know what they're infected with. Down to the detail of
what virus, and coupled with NAI's virus library, including how that
particular virus works. Hahaha. :)

> Anyway, thanks for the tip, I hope to offer this as an added service
> for my customers.

I think more and more people should either shift to Linux, or get services
from people like you (and me? hahaha!). It's hard to understand the logic
behind the popularity of Windows given the viruses that so easily infect
it.

 --> Jijo

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