On Thu, 31 Jan 2002 at 17:01, Dudley F. Ca�as wrote: > Hi guys Im using sendmail on redhat 6.2 clone p3 box my concern right > now is that virus attachment and malicious code might infect my server > Whats the best virus protection for Linux email server?
If your worry is your Linux server then an anti-virus program is not what you need. You need TRAINING. Security is a way of life, and no anti-virus or firewall program will save you if you do not live this way of life. You can start by reading the Network Administration Guides of the LDP. The main site is <http://www.linuxdoc.org/>, and we have a mirror in <http://ldp.leathercollection.ph/> which is updated nightly. Besides, there are very few trojans that can infect Linux boxes by email attachment. And all of these require you to be reading mail and running attachments as root. And if you're doing all that as root in the first place, you should be barbequeued and fed to the sharks (hehehe). If your concern, however, is protecting Windows boxes behind your Linux server, then you can either use AMaViS together with some file-sweeping type antivirus like McAfee's uvscan or Sophos sweep, or you can use one of those more expensive anti-virus programs that interface with the three most popular MTAs directly (Postfix, qmail and Sendmail). One such program is Kaspersky Anti-Virus <http://www.kaspersky.com/>. --> Jijo PS- if you're new to Linux you may want to subscribe to the PH Linux Newbie mailing list. That mailing list is designed to handle newbie questions as we hope the main PLUG list will be used for more advanced Linux discussions. PS2- unless you have good reason to stick with Sendmail, a significant number of us here in PLUG have found that Postfix and qmail are not just easier to set up and maintain, but are more efficient and more secure, too. You may want to check them out. <http://www.postfix.org/> and <http://www.qmail.org/>. -- Federico Sevilla III :: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Network Administrator :: The Leather Collection, Inc. GnuPG Key: http://jijo.leathercollection.ph/jijo.gpg _ Philippine Linux Users Group. Web site and archives at http://plug.linux.org.ph To leave: send "unsubscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To subscribe to the Linux Newbies' List: send "subscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
