[plug] The best antivirus software for Linux...

[Rikki T. Vizcarra]

Hello everybody,   First of all... I want to greet all of you a Happy Christmas and a Merry New Year! =)   Which do you think is the best (free of course) antivirus program for Linux?   Now you may ask why I'm asking about this... It' just that I tried using AMAVIS (not the perl compilation) with McAfee Antivirus for my SMTP on three (3) different servers using RH6.2, RH7.0 and RH7.1 but it seems there is a bug with the McAfee Scanner.  It keeps on trying to open external drives (ex: CDROM, Floppy...) everytime it scans for viruses.  And since I'm testing it to filter virus mails, and having about an average of 30 outgoing and incoming emails every minute, you could see the overhead delay of the mails since everytime the scanner runs it tries first to open the floppy and cdrom drive.   Now I'm looking for an alternative virus scanner.  I believe a lot of people here is using Sophos (which is bundled with RH7.2).  I have seen a lot of good reviews about it but haven't tried it.  Sophos people called me and gave me a quotation for their software but the price is too high for me.  While we're at it... are there other programs out there like AMAVIS??   or better yet... let's rephrase my question...   What is the best (and free) antivirus for an SMTP Gateway/Server?     Regards and Happy Holidays!   --- Rikki T. Vizcarra Systems Administrator Publicis-AMA, Inc. Tel No: +63 2 9115353 E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]